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
    2020-11-16T22:41:44+00:00

    I am experiencing the Away status appearing even when I am active and working on my computer. I've tried minimizing Teams as well as keeping it open on my desktop but it constantly shows me Away even as I'm typing on my computer. This is an issue and not cool.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-17T16:48:09+00:00

    This has been created since July—What is the update to this question?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-17T16:57:02+00:00

    still having issues . . . today alone it switched me from active to gone within 5 minutes even though I was on my computer working in excel.  So they have NOT fixed this

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  4. 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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  5. 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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