"And it is all because of that mouse. You see, Steinbrenner is like the first guy in, at the crack of dawn. He sees my mouse moving, he figures I'm the first guy in. Then, the last person to leave is Wilhelm. He sees my mouse moving, he figures I'm burning the midnight oil. Between the two of them, they think I'm working an 18 hour day!"[0] - George Costanza
I mean, I'm not aware of centralized tools built in to Teams that are used to systematically evaluate people, and if they exist, I wouldn't necessarily expect they are being exploited by my organization.
What I was referring to was simply that there is a little color coded status symbol by a person's chat icon, which is green if they are active, and turns yellow if they are not doing much.
However, if you have a meeting or appointment on your calendar, or you are presenting/videoconferencing it goes to red, so you really don't have to be green or yellow any more than you want to.
Technically you are correct about your awareness. My apologies.
But in context, MS Teams has extensive dashboard analytics, some of it promoted under the guise of "employee wellness" but mostly used for command and control and monitoring, and there are several addons that add even more extensive tracking and analytics, e.g. ActivTrak.
I think that’s used to determine your online status rather than a centrally tracked metric. But it’s fair to say that your status is watched by some managers with nothing better to do.
