Not everything is out to get you. Gather doesn't have any automatic idle detection.
I doubt Gather would work well for a large company where there is less trust between individuals - maybe that's the scenario you're imaginging it in?
It works well in our small company where trust is implied by being here and we have few concrete expectations. In practice it's no different than being signed in to Slack.
You have the option to mark yourself as away or to passively lock your desk area so people have to knock to come in but this status isn't apparent unless someone comes by.
I doubt Gather would work well for a large company where there is less trust between individuals - maybe that's the scenario you're imaginging it in?
It works well in our small company where trust is implied by being here and we have few concrete expectations. In practice it's no different than being signed in to Slack.
You have the option to mark yourself as away or to passively lock your desk area so people have to knock to come in but this status isn't apparent unless someone comes by.