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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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-06T16:50:28+00:00

    This is a terrible feature.  

    I can't even change the status to "Available" - I select Available for the status message, and it keeps showing "Away" anyway.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-06T19:51:13+00:00

    Yes, apparently, there is no fix for this.  Teams just launched in my organization & I can’t count how many people are complaining.  To me alone, 100 people.  There needs to be a fix for this as when I am supervising staff, I need a more accurate way to measure and my boss needs a more accurate way to measure that I am available as well.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-06T19:57:47+00:00

    I'm having the same issue

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-04-07T23:58:24+00:00

    Use Caffeine  !

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