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Out of office pop up showing up constantly for all users

Hi,

We at work are in a group chat and when someone is out of office, the little grey bar ontop of the chat box keeps showing up with the info that the person is out of office and may not respond.

You can close it but every time you re-open the chat tab it pops back up.

This happens for all users in chat (about 20 participants).

Can we disable this?

Thanks

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  • CP commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree. This option needs to be one of two things:
    1. Only shows once per day, like an email.
    2. Have the option to disable it.

  • Spike commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    To be told every single time you type anything is intrusive, annoying and very bad design.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great to distinguish between personal and group chats for this pop up window making it possible to close it forever, at least in group chats with 3+ persons. It might be useful for personal chats but it is very distracting when you have to look at this annoying reminders in group chats

  • Creek commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Clearly nobody from MS reads this and/or cares what users think. They have the major market share, they've already sold their product to your/our company and they do not give a flying fig about what shite they're forcing on us or how annoying it is.

  • Marcus commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have a coworker who literally won't join Teams due to this garbage feature. Remove it, no one finds it helpful. Please, Microsoft. Please.

  • George Georgiou commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is bullying! Why should I get notified so many times that Mr. X is on leave while I am working? TURN IT OFF! I KNOW THAT THIS GUY IS ON HOLIDAYS ! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

  • Raman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great to distinguish between personal and group chats for this pop up window making it possible to close it forever, at least in group chats with 3+ persons. It might be useful for personal chats but it is very distracting when you have to look at this annoying reminders in group chats

  • Simon Thomson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This "feature" serves no purpose, is universally disliked and adds further distraction to an already distracting application. Most people are annoyed by this pointless popup and those that aren't it drives completely nuts.

    We have taken to discouraging the setting of Out Of Office messages by prefacing all comms to someone who sets one with their Out Of Office message for at least a week, e.g.

    JOHNSON Boris who is currently recovering from Covid19 How was your ride in today?

  • Wojciech Molicki commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This message appears just above input box, so there is no way to not see this / hide this (because it reappears constantly) - bad design, please fix!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please remove this feature. I work for a large company with 1000s of users and this feature is getting really annoying.

  • bobbie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please provide an option to disable this, or add a 'notify once' in the notification settings. Please. It is highly annoying, maddening really, to see this pop up every time i go to a chat or respond to a chat.

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