time delay post
It is late on Friday and I would like my staff to get a non-urgent message when they get to work on Monday morning. If I wait to post it, I might forget. If the message was urgent, I'd want it to go through.
John Ligtenberg
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60 comments
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Ibraheem Khan
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must have!! please do it quickly!!
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Joey Bodeep
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I really love this idea and I can't believe it hasn't been implemented already
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Anonymous
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Adding to this, it would be good also to be able to post the message when a person's status changes to available.
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AM
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How do we gain more traction on this?? It has been 3 years.....
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Anonymous
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I was just looking to use this feature (I just expected it to be available). Please give us this feature.
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Dan
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As a Manager, I want to build messages in teams when thoughts enter my mind any time of day, and have flexible delivery time and delivery trigger options so that I can honor my commitment to work-life balance for my team, while reducing my own effort to capture information and communicate.
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Brandon Lucas
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This was posted almost 3 years ago, and as noted it is functionality already in Slack. How do we get this on the list? 93 votes doesn't seem like much, but it's clear that this is standard functionality for this space.
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Thomas
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There has been some discussion of this idea at this URL, where a few other Teams users have requested this feature:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams/Delay-Send-Feature-on-Teams-Posts/m-p/1053625#M42018 -
Bjoern Sjut
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I agree with this feature. I sometimes have late in the evening something that I would like to pass to the team when they are back in the office, but I don't want to remember it sending it the next morning.
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Warlike Chimpanzee commented
Disappointed that Teams does not already have this feature. I wish my company had gone with Slack instead, which can do this.
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JG
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This would be huge - especially for working with teams across the globe.
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Anonymous
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It is just a must-have!
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JF Amprimoz
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This seems to be an obvious productivity enhancing move to reduce the interruption factor like this.
Think of how much more we'd all get done if we only got crucial time sensitive messages when we are busy, but anything else was deferred until we were available.
UI wise, this starts with the ability to opt in to sending a non interrupting message, as the new feature. As time goes on, I'd think a lot of orgs would rather have the default be non-interrupting, with users having to think twice about if something warrants interrupting the recipient.
Being able to chat real time is great, but when that isn't needed, it's a huge productivity and morale drain to be getting messages at times you can't deal with them anyway.
On the other end, someone going the extra mile to help out and trying to get stuff done late or on the weekend now has to decide if they want to just send and cross fingers other folks have their notifications off at that time, or fire up the desktop version of outlook and schedule an email.
In under a minute I found these other threads asking for message delay or scheduling functions:
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Adam Hutchins
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Fully agree with previous comments - this is a vital feature to add to Teams and one that will help immensely.
An addition/alternative could be the ability to set a reminder, perhaps with the ability to tag members in that reminder.
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Brian
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Agree that this feature is something that would be greatly valued in our organization. As we move to teams there can be a lot of back and forth on comment threads at all hours depending on individual work schedules. Being able to work at night without triggering a long exchange or having team members feeling they're missing out would reduce stress and promote work-life balance.
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Thomas
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This feature would be very helpful in my company, where about half of us have back-to-back meetings that the other half do not want to distract from. To be specific about what would be helpful for us:
1. Be able to set a hold on my sent message until the recipients (1:1 or individual members of a Team) have their statuses revert to their available.
2. Be able to turn the above behavior on or off via both a one-time button in the toolbar below the text entry field or with a default behavior configurator.
3. Be able to configure this setting to only apply when users' statuses have been automatically changed to busy by Outlook) and still go through immediately when they have permanently set it to "Busy" or "Away," (etc.), or to set it to delay regardless of whether "Busy" (etc.) was set manually. -
Ryan Green
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I was just searching, hoping this feature was already built in and I've just missed it, but instead found this. This feature would be very helpful! I tend to work in the evenings and want to send messages to staff when it is top of mind but wish I could do it without bothering them. Sure email can do this but email is so heavy and outdated for simple internal reminders etc, that's why teams exists right :)
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Scott Spiro commented
Definitely on board with this suggestion.
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Anonymous
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Totally agree with this. I get to work earlier than my direct reports so I like to have the ability to type chats when I'm starting the day, but don't want to bother them until they get to work. So, if I could have a delay sending until X:XX (e.g., 9:00) that would be great.
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Gabriel Smoljár commented
This is one of the features from Outlook that I miss the most. It would be better than Outlook if the delay was server side and not client side like in Outlook.