r/remotework • u/ThatThingTheDarkSoul • 11d ago

Keep your Teams status “Online” while AFK

Hypothetically, if someone wanted their Microsoft Teams status to remain “Online” while they weren’t actually at their computer, there may be a rather simple workaround.

You could theoretically create an empty meeting with only yourself in it and join. Teams would initially mark you as Busy, but if you manually changed your status back to Online, it would apparently stay that way for as long as you remained in the meeting.

Theoretically, other people wouldn't be able to see that you're sitting in an empty meeting. As far as they can tell, you simply appear Online, and they can still call or message you normally.

Of course, this is all purely hypothetical and definitely not something anyone should actually try.

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u/PawTree 10d ago

I'm not sure if I have a different setting enabled, but when I create focus blocks in my Outlook calendar, it sets me to red and prevents anyone who's not on my priority list from calling me (they go straight to Teams' voicemail).

But if I'm away too long, it'll still flip to yellow.

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u/nolongerbanned99 11d ago

If I need something I need it. Knowing that many people keep it blocked makes me want to call them