This alone wasnt the issue. They weren’t getting their work done and they would never respond when they showed they were online. Respondes would be 2-4 hours later and always some excuse of “oh I didn’t notice the message”. When we discovered that they had this and weren’t doing work because, well they weren’t doing anything, they were gone.
While I do not condone stealing time and not doing your job, for anyone who has a job without a lot of work that still requires you to look “busy” and are wondering how to get around the “people are suspicious because it says I’m online but I wasn’t responding” issue, set up a meeting for the time you’re up from your computer so teams will indicate you’re busy. Probably won’t work in a super small team where everybody knows whoever would be in a meeting with you, isn’t, though.
This alone wasnt the issue. They weren’t getting their work done and they would never respond when they showed they were online. Respondes would be 2-4 hours later and always some excuse of “oh I didn’t notice the message”. When we discovered that they had this and weren’t doing work because, well they weren’t doing anything, they were gone.
Ah, ok. That makes sense; the wiggler was seen more as proof than the issue itself.
While I do not condone stealing time and not doing your job, for anyone who has a job without a lot of work that still requires you to look “busy” and are wondering how to get around the “people are suspicious because it says I’m online but I wasn’t responding” issue, set up a meeting for the time you’re up from your computer so teams will indicate you’re busy. Probably won’t work in a super small team where everybody knows whoever would be in a meeting with you, isn’t, though.