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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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I am confused as to why this widespread programmatic issue hasn't been resolved yet. Without an account manager liaison, customers are forced to roll the dice posting on this forum, and it looks like this has been going on for 2+ years.
I am experiencing the same issue. I am actively working on my machine, with teams in the background; however, my status is set to away after 5 minutes. My machine is not idle , asleep, etc...; I am using the machine actively when this occurs.
This is negatively affecting my work performance and perception in the workplace, and I know several others who are experiencing the same. If anyone has experienced this and explored alternatives to teams, please let me know.
Having the exact same issue for a couple of days now. Regardless of being available, being in a call or even just busy in teams in general, it shows the status as away - even if you manually change your status, it remains this way???
Solution that worked for me is closing teams and communicating over zoom. Incredibly annoying situation given that my Outlook status reflected this as well. Can't believe it's still an issue.
I have a similar issue where I will set my status to "be right back" and sometimes when I come back and resume working I forget to manually switch it back to available. On occasion I've been working for quite some time only to realize I'm still showing as "be right back." It would be helpful if there was a setting in Teams that would allow users to select having Teams switch back to available status upon detecting activity.