WORK FROM HOME status icon
This proposition is to simply add an extra status icon (top left of the portrait) to signify WFH. (like a Home pin)
Given that so many people in the world are working from home, knowing that some are from home and some are from office would be great!
Gabriel Sanvido
shared this idea
8 comments
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Ken
commented
This is easy and should be done. Completely logical addition
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Igor
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i would suggest to support more general solution like this https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33331429-my-location
So everyone can see my status corresponding to my current location - not only WFH, but "HomeOffice", 'In train', 'at customer', 'in Sydney office', 'in LA office', etc -
Billy
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This was raised 8 months ago, why has it not been implemented. Common sense should prevail rather than how many votes a post gets. Microsoft has a strange way of prioritising and making changes, often too late!! It's 2020 Microsoft please catch up with the rest of the world...
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Stephen
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I shouldn't be surprised that this post was raised in March and it is still not implemented. Microsoft would have to be the slowest global company to make quick adaptive changes that would benefit their customers. I see that Cisco Jabber implemented it, so why is it taking so long?
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Motoo Tanaka
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I have some users in our company that are interested by such a feature, to have a second badge for that, just as Gabriel is proposing .
We could have a checkbox along side the status options in Teams to set the WFH additional info, or maybe pickup from the Outlook event' ^show as' when it set to "Working from Elsewhere". -
Yannick Biet
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Would be so great to have a Work from home toggle (depending on the location ?) like Slack display it ! It would be a time saver issue for meetings.
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Gabriel Sanvido
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@Duayne Barr: That's actually the issue. Most people working from home just want to have an extra status over their current status. i.e. I'm working normally, but from my home rather than the office.
The current system replaces your current status rather than complementing it. The only workaround is to set a status message, though by doing this, you are polluting people's screens, and it becomes unreadable if you have 10 or 20 people doing the same.
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Duayne Barr
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The better place for it may be in Outlook. Like the Out Of Office but Work From Home. Users usually schedule their WFH in advance and having it there would help people scheduling meetings via scheduling assistant. The TEAMs status usually shows the OOO along with available anyway.
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