Teams away setting automatically switching on when not away

Not that being the 1,379th poster matters, but I also have the same issue. It is incredibly frustrating because our management watches for individuals who are 'Away' and it creates a false perception of our availability and productivity, especially now with a lot of our work being remote with our clients. Teams was heavily marketed as the best solution to the COVID remote workforce dilemma, but this is a huge missing piece. Having to constantly open Teams and generate activity just to prove I'm available makes me far less productive. Strange for an app that is supposed to increase the productivity of our workforce. Need to create or find a feature improvement request on this and upvote it.

Luckily there's a hardware solution for something that Microsoft is apparently unable to solve programmatically:

MouseJiggler

I think that Microsoft is selling their 5-minute-Away-User-Productivity-Check as a feature, but they don't realize that it's making users everywhere hate Teams. It's a matter of time before another Slack comes along to make everybody switch en-masse.

Microsoft, can you add some code to Teams to make the mouse move around so that your code understands that the status should not be "Away"? Maybe that can be added as a plugin? I would pay for that if I hadn't already bought a hardware solution.

Mouse Jiggler doesn’t work because you have to be active in Teams directly in order for it to register. My issue is when I am being productive over in excel but Teams shows me away or inactive because I haven’t done anything with Teams in the allotted time. Mouse Jiggler works great for things like Skype that just looked for any activity on the laptop.

I am also having this problem, 8 months (at least) after it was first reported to Microsoft. I was ACTUALLY ON A TEAMS CALL (with video on) when my colleagues noticed it said I was away. There doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason why it switches back and forth. I can be in teams and physically set my status to "Available" and it will STILL show away. This is a major flaw that needs to be corrected, especially with the remote working now-a-days.

A thought occurred to me yesterday.

I am usually signed in on both my phone and laptop, if I'm on the go as well I occasionally bring a tablet that also uses Teams.

Perhaps if one of the 3 isn't getting used it goes on away they all do? Even if you're in a meeting, or in my case yesterday "Presenting" is that possibly what's causing this?

I have to use at least 2 of these devices all the time and it seems to me that if 1 is being used and is active, shouldn't both (or all 3) be considered active and not "Away" when the same account is in a call, at their desk, or even presenting?

I'm probably wrong but the idea came to me yesterday when I was presenting a powerpoint and people who weren't in the meeting texted me asking me to call them when I was back at my desk. When I asked why they thought I was away said they were seeing me as away.