Schedule message to send at a later time
Often some member of our team finds themselves with a good idea or an interesting article that they want to post on MS Teams while it is fresh in their mind... at 6:00AM on a Saturday. This tends to wake people up if they keep Teams on their phone and don't have it on silent. It would be very nice to have the option to be considerate to those still in slumber and schedule a Teams message to go out at a later time. Many SMS messaging apps have this feature these days.
Jon Geller
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206 comments
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Aditya Shah
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This would be very useful, especially for leaders that are looking to not post things in off-hours to set a good message for their teams.
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Ryan Green
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Please, for all the reason listed can we have this
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Jean Pagan
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This would be very useful for me. I often times work late at night and would like to reply/continue a chat so the other team members can receive it first thing in the morning and not have their phones sound the alert or have to switch to email to do this.
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Tyler
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I need this so bad. I've told my team that I DO NOT expect a reply to a Teams message after normal business hours. Being the CEO I feel as though they are still afraid to leave me hanging and reply even late at night. A simple "Send tomorrow" button would even be quite helpful.. perhaps with the ability to personalize the "Tomorrow" time.
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Carl Clifford
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This would be handy but only IF it would prompt me later BEFORE sending with "Are you sure you still want to post [First few words of post...] to [recipient/s]?" (with an option to edit the post before sending). Think about it... how many creative brain bursts occur after hours that later don't pan out because you forgot about one tiny yet significant detail.... it could be made too easy to post such prematurely. That said, I support the idea for being able to create a post with recipients tagged and ready to submit at a more acceptable hour. But being able to sleep on it can provide opportunity to refine or reconsider. Procrastination has been identified as a necessary part of the creative process. Here is an opportunity to integrate this principle within a fantastic communication tool.
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Unknown
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yes please we need this feature very much
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Anonymous
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This would be an extremely useful feature.
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David Reed
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Remote work forces need this feature to properly respect other remote users and their work/life boundaries.
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Anonymous
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That is good to have
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Anonymous
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awesome idea!
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Maarten
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Yes please! Our agile team sometimes need a reminder for something. Thumbs up!
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DG
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Yes we need this! I can't believe this isn't a feature yet, even my phone text messaging app can do it.
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Enmanuel
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This would be great. Please add this feature.
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Zane
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I don't know if this is mentioned in another comment, but the ability to schedule a Teams message to be delivered upon Status change would be great.
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Kevin Norton
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This is needed in a school environment too - to avoid bombarding students or staff with messages outside of core operating house. The solution by using Outlook and a delayed message is far from optimal.
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Åge Spets
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Come on, this is a must for expectationhandling in organisations!! Have to be ok to work in evening and not disturb other employees!
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Anonymous
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Yea please
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Arpit Mehta
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Yes please add this feature
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Carl
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Our organization made to switch to Teams & everyone was on board until some members started getting chats at 4 am or on the weekend.
The excitement of real-time communication quickly waned, nobody wanted to be "that guy".
Schedule a delivery, send later, delay delivery, whatever you want to call it, we need it in Teams.
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Michelle
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Definitely need this feature! I work across multiple time zones and often respond to chats at off hours. Would love to schedule my message to not alert them until the beginning of business hours.