"Notify when available" missing

It's great that you are happy to continue with Teams 'classic' version instead of the new one. However, that's not a solution for everyone. My organisation has a group policy which forces the new version and makes it impossible to go back to the old one, even through the browser.

We're not voting against the new Teams app, we're just using the community forum to request a feature.

Well, I do vote against a new version when features that I need are removed. I would think that if many people avoid using the new version, maybe the product owner of MS Teams will start thinking about these kind of choices. Normally, removing a feature should go in steps - where you can use the settings to re-enable the removed feature. Which means that you, again, vote for the removal of the feature. Much better approach than posting in the forum, I would think.

In any case, this has nothing to do with requesting a feature that did not exist in the first place.

I'm in the same unfortunate situation, Rani, and you make a good point. Our company is moving over 100% to new Teams April 1 and our computers will be blocked from reverting to Classic. I'm not voting against new just because it's new and I like the old,, but it seems MS is not listening about users discontent over losing this feature.

I also agree with Howard_DJ that this is not about requesting a feature that didn't exist in the first place. I'm going to continue using Classic until we're forced to change - or MS puts the feature in new Teams.

I hope this is temporary as this doesn't account for when people are "Away". We're living in a world where we may use teams to communicate with someone, we would have typically just turned around to talk to. We no longer can see when that person "returns to their desk". There are a number of reasons they could be away that are not covered by "next available calendar slot".