Unable to manage inactive time before away status appears!

To be able to adjust time before away status appears!

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Cristina Herrera commented · February 24, 2021 5:59 AM · Flag as inappropriate

100% AGREE! We need this ASAP!

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Geert commented · October 30, 2020 2:58 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Agree 100% - very frustrating for my colleagues and me.
As most of us using Teams work remotely it looks to your colleagues and managers that you are often AWAY … very unprofessional and wrong.

If we cannot switch off the automatic changing of status to AWAY at least we should be able to adjust the delay - how often are you not working on something for 10 minutes without actively using Teams.

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John M. Mullen commented · August 25, 2020 9:18 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Lack of adjustable delay is frustrating. Was a good feature in Skype for Business.

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Anonymous commented · August 20, 2020 12:57 PM · Flag as inappropriate

100% AGREE, ridiculous. At least when we had Skype we could set the timer. AWAY appears to management we are NOT at our desk working, when in fact, working on something else not using the desktop
Please FIX this

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Anonymous commented · August 17, 2020 9:40 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Giving only 5 minutes is just ridiculous. It will appear to my management that I am not available or I am not working. When in reality I am just sorting through plans and not using the computer. Stop the micromanagement this is creating. Thanks

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D G commented · August 11, 2020 6:27 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Agreed!

Teams can safely change a person's status if their PC is locked or asleep or powered off or if there's no net connection. However, Teams should NOT assume a person is away from their desk/PC and/or that they are unavailable simply because they haven't touched their mouse or keyboard for a while.

When I'm reviewing paperwork or working on another device, I may not be active on my PC but that doesn't mean I'm away and it doesn't mean I'm not available!

And, if I manually set my status to available, Teams should not ignore/contradict me after only 5mins. At the very least, we should be able to tell Teams how long to wait before ignoring our instructtions. Please fix it!

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Anonymous commented · August 4, 2020 11:43 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Skype Business allowed a setting to be able to set a time frame before it auto populated to AWAY.

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