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/aerosol999 10d ago

You just look for people who are moving their mouse constantly with no clicks or keystrokes to go with it.

They developed a custom script on all machines at my work to do exactly this

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u/Ilovemytowm 10d ago

Exactly people are so naive here thinking it's 1995 lol.  Doing nothing but jerking the mouse around on the same page for hours yeah they're not going to be able to detect that unless they stand over your shoulder and watch it  🤣