Teams away setting automatically switching on when not away

Anonymous
2020-07-01T17:06:37+00:00

Hi there, 

My teams status is constantly switching to "away" while I am working on my computer. This is very frustrating as my co-workers need to know when I am actually away or available.

Is there a manual override for this? It would be excellent to be able to set it as available so that my team knows they can reach my even if I am working on paper, or in this case if it has switched itself to "away".

Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-01T22:07:03+00:00

    This is a huge issue- I'm not super active in teams unless someone is chatting with me or I am in meeting. I also spend a lot of time on the phone we use vonage for through our computers. Switch me to away/yellow status makes it appear I'm not working even though I am.  Microsoft PLEASE fix this.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-01T14:27:45+00:00

    It's not December 2020 and this is STILL an issue, even on the Mac version. I can be in Teams and can watch it switch to away. I've disabled sleep, screen savers, etc.

    Any chance you'll fix this???????

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-19T18:37:35+00:00

    This is not acceptable solution. When working it goes to away too quickly. We need to be able to control what status we want and not be bound by the micro-management of Microsoft.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-17T22:04:32+00:00

    It happens every time while I am working or on the phone. I wished we go back to Skype--- It was more friendly and easy to use. And i was able to customize it based on my duties for the day 

    Microsoft Teams simply sucks

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-11-17T20:53:26+00:00

    Yep, you are correct! I timed it today with a stopwatch. 2 minutes 30 seconds and I'm switched to yellow as Away which is NOT the case. Working from home, I had to alert my managers to this so they don't think I'm not working. I think this is an issue that can cause a lot of harm to workers if not fixed immediately.

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