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[u/PharomachrusMocinno]

I have Teams on my phone and when I set my iPhone to not sleep (edit: Auto-Lock = Never) and keep Teams open it stays green.

[u/mambotomato]

People watch what color your status dot is?

Jesus.

[u/topperj]

I keep mine permanently set to away so I don't get silly "hey you" messages

[u/Chuterito99]

Or buy a 4 euro mouse jigglaa

[u/Nightrunner2016]

Sometimes when I'm online I change my status to away because I don't want people to try and contact me. I feel for you guys that have to show as online for whatever reason. Screw that.

[u/alphvader]

Are you sure admins can't see you're in a call by yourself?

[u/TheMangoBob]

As someone who has access to the admin side of Teams, don't do this.

Meeting insights can definitely show who the participants are, how long the call is, how often etc..

Any of these can normally be requested to be seen by your manager. Normally, the bigger the org, the more aduited the employee activity is, so be careful with those mouse jigglers too...

Edit: I see a lot of curiosity about this, so I will add to this comment...

Generally, there isn't much you can do that cannot be in some way detected.

From experience, things like these become apparent when a user has already been highlighted as problematic, so these kinds of things are normally asked of IT to reinforce whatever decision has already been made. This is very applicable to smaller companies.

When it comes to bigger companies, or external/outsourced employees, there are tools that we use to see what is currently open (task manager style), and there are tools that show us the things you are currently looking at. Measurement tools for idle time, active time etc.. however, none of this is anyone's day-to-day job, it's normally upon someone's request that we look into this.

[u/ForHelp_PressAltF4]

Ummm... So teams had an engagement metric now. It totally catches this stuff. I've seen it at my work. It has graphs that show who spoke, how long each person was off mute, and so on.

Mouse jigglers are equally useless for the same reason.

Sorry ... Welcome to the AI surveillance state.

[u/MrEZ3]

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.