In fact Microsoft built these features straight into Microsoft 365 under the name "Insights" (I think now being rebranded again to viva something)

They say it's all anonymized but it's really easy to correlate back to users by playing with settings.

Ye. I solved it by booking a meeting with myself for a year so my status was always "one way street" when I WHF:ed.

it's ironic to me how the typical boss measures productivity in emails, chats and other things that are not real work, making things, solving problems...

its like even the basis by which they measure work, is not work. but since thats all they ever do, they have no other frame of reference.

One thing I appreciate about slack is my ability to turn off the "auto-afk" check.

For now.

For now. And should that change, I have a script ready to "fix" that.

> I think I will use it the next time I wiggle the mouse to make my Teams status green again.

https://github.com/arkane-systems/mousejiggler

You still manually wiggle the mouse? Imagine how much more productive you'd be with an automatic mouse jiggler.

No I switched job to a in office.

And I didn't have to because I had a nice boss but wfh made me uneasy. I made up the need in my head that I had to be not "away" while working. So I did it out of habit ... not too strict though.