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Allow users to customize away presence timeout

Allow users to customize away presence timeout like the options in the Skype client. Add: Show me inactive when my computer has been idle for this many minutes. Also Add: Change my status from inactive to Away after this many minutes.

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  • Kim commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why in the WORLD was this changed to only a few minutes. The user should be able to control this. This needs to be added to Teams immediately!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have two profiles. Currently one is set on Skype and the other on Teams. If I am in a meeting under the one that isn't signed in to Teams, then Teams will think I'm idle and say I am Away. This is unacceptable. My employer and clients monitor this status to determine my availability. I need to be able to manually set this. I have also had Team switch to Away while I am doing work on paper. So I have to constantly remember to move the mouse, which is extremely frustrating and distracting. MS should not assume all work is done using the keyboard and the mouse!

  • FH commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, should have been there from the beginning. Lack of it looks like intended surveillance and IS a privacy issue.

  • Noel Paterson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please add this feature. Even if I am at my desk reading rather than typing on my keyboard, Teams very quickly shows that I'm "Inactive" and shortly after that "Away" and not available, which is simply not true..

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There´s really no reasone why a usefule feature that was available on Skype shouldn't be available on Teams

  • Glynis Rates commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We definitely need this feature. Additional information, when using the Focus feature from the Insights add-in in Outlook, if you go inactive (Away) for a short period of time and then come back, Teams will show you in the Focused status again, but Outlook will remain in Away status. That's not good.

  • Lee commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this feature! super bummed it isn't a setting currently

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