{"id":16808,"date":"2023-01-11T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statusholder.com\/teams-status-out-of-office-with-3-steps\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T11:28:46","slug":"teams-status-out-of-office-with-3-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statusholder.com\/en\/teams-status-out-of-office-with-3-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams Status: Out of office with 3 steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Microsoft Teams, the status of the logged-in user is not a core component. This status indicates whether the colleague is available, absent or in a meeting. But there is also out-of-home status. You have to make a small detour for this to be displayed.<\/p>\n\n

The difficult issue of status<\/h2>\n\n

The Microsoft Teams app automatically sets the status depending on whether you are currently at your PC or the computer is switched off. This is both a curse and a blessing. Because in Germany, the country of data protection, status is an issue. This can also be used for employee monitoring and is therefore also a data protection issue. There may be considerations such as: “My employee is shown out of the office or absent, even though they should be working?”.<\/p>\n\n

With our Status Holder, it is also possible to set the Teams status permanently to Available, even when you are away from your computer. You can download<\/a> it free of charge<\/a> here.<\/p>\n\n

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Prevent employee monitoring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Teams Status Away from home<\/h2>\n\n

In Teams, you can set a status manually or reset<\/a> the status<\/a> so that it is automatically set again by Teams. But if you want to set the Out of office status in Teams, you will find that it is not available. This is because only the following are available for manual selection in the app:<\/p>\n\n