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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.

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  • Jasmine commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please, microsoft-we really need this! I work in a hospital and people are already overworked as is so I don't want to take away from anyone's down time.

  • Andy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The 'if you don't see it and engage with it when it happens 24/7 you lose out' principle is toxic to work/life balance - especially under covid when everything is happening at home and the boundaries are thinner than they've ever been before. Anything Microsoft could do would be appreciated.

  • Jodi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be great (to delay delivery, as in MS Outlook). I also was thinking about the possibility of sending a message to delay until someone's status has changed to "Available". Another option (this may be a different vote/forum) an optional notification when you find that someone is unavailable/busy/in a meeting to choose "Notify when available?", click it to yes and you will get a notification when that person is available.

  • Anckit commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be useful to pre-send announcements (similar to outlook), or send a message so that the other party receives at a decent time in their timezone

  • Gary commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Also allows efficiency of working with block scheduling. And please, 3-4 clicks max, not 37 clicks 5 layers deep. I would prefer to send "lightbulb" ideas on the hour, rather than spread across the hour. It would be great if it could be set as a default, e.g. all sends are released on the hour or half hour, except overrides to send immediately. I'd be grateful for a basic, simple delay, though.

  • Austin Habich commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I work later in the evenings but would love to be able to send messages to my team members so they'd receive them first thing in the morning. I hate sending them at night as I do not want to disturb them after-hours.

  • Yana commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm so waiting for it! Our team members ale living in different time zones. And I totally agree with Jon arguments for the feature. It would be super useful
    Please add it to update

  • Mike commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Most of our leadership team have on-call rotations where they need to keep all notifications on across all lines of communication for 24-48 hours at a time. As someone who frequently throws a few hours of work in late in the evening or on weekends, this feature would really help ensure I get them the information they need without risking interrupting their sleep/down-time, and without having to fuss with saving drafts and setting reminders.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be game changing for me, I currently log notes to myself for things that I need to send onto others at a more convenient time (i.e. during normal working hours!), being able to schedule messages would save me so much time and also of course remove the chance of me forgetting to do it later!

  • Hamid Moosavian commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would use this feature often. Very helpful. I hoped the features existed, I Google and landed on this page. Please prioritize adding this useful feature.

  • Mike Murphy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would make it so much easier to be crazily productive with Teams. My team's culture is very considerate of "off hours" and I'd love the ability to send an idea when I think of it (even if it's at 1am), without creating the impression that I want or need a response right away.

    Having it not be delivered at all until the next morning is great, because frankly I don't like the optics of people seeing messages from me at odd hours. Even people who know I don't expect a quick response might not be able to resist the temptation.

    This would allow me to practice my own bad "1am" habits while protecting my team from theirs. :)

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