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Expand emojis to reflect the diversity of ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability of your user base

Emoji set is limited and almost exclusively white and male. This doesn't reflect the make up of most modern workplaces and certainly doesn't reflect the make up of your global user base.

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Jonathan Chapman, Clifford Chance LLP shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
completed  ·  AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

Thank you for your feedback! We are excited to announce that we have rolled out a new set of over 800 emojis to our Desktop and Web platforms, with plans to release on Mobile in the coming months. This update includes 6 skin tone options, different genders for applicable emojis as well as emojis featuring people with disabilities. You can also add native OS emojis using “Win +.” shortcut in Windows and “Cmd + Ctrl + Space” in MacOS.

See more details here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/send-an-emoji-gif-or-sticker-in-teams-174248c9-e64d-4de1-9f41-3199cc0751ad and https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-all-available-emojis-b9c2ccda-9ad9-4dbb-a25d-bbcebf6311ae

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need emojis that have brown and black skin tones! thumbs up and other emojis should not just reflect white skin. I know on every social media platform you are given choices of color. Microsoft needs to get with it.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would like MS to reflect diversity in their emojis - If whatsapp can do it I'm sure MS is capable!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Include diverse skin colours in the emoji panel so as to be more representative of users.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Seconding this request; persons of all colors need to be represented and added to Teams.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please increase the options for Teams emojis to be more reflective of the diversity in our world. Thank you.

  • Julia Gumina commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please increase the skin tone options for emojis to go beyond just pale skin tones. The current tones are not representative of my company and our world.

  • Robin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please, this is important to make sure everyone feels included.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For diversity purposes- you should try to make the face emoji's in multiple skin tones

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How is a genderless, color neutral (yellow) set of faces "almost exclusively white and male"?

  • Meagan Stephens commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    To represent the many colors of individuals who use Teams, it would be appropriate to have many colors embedded within the emojis and hand raise feature. The entire rainbow would be great!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This should definitely be included given all the other products which do cover this space as well as being diverse and inclusive

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This should definitely be included given all the other products which do cover this space as well as being diverse and inclusive

  • Andrew commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Get rid of white and just have yellow so people don't get so bent out of shape about a non-issue.

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