Do people realize your boss and colleagues can see how long you’ve been offline?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these your reports or just colleagues you work with? If they aren’t your reports or impacting your work in some way, who cares. I don’t have the time or energy to track other people’s online status or get irritated about it if they’re offline.

It’s a mix of direct reports, subordinates further down the food chain, and peers at my supervisory level.

The reason I know this is because I’m emailing people with requests and I can see they’ve been offline since early yesterday afternoon. Multiple people. Nobody is officially using leave. Nobody is responding in a timely manner.

This is becoming routine for more and more people.

What I’m noticing is the new casual Friday trend is sleeping in and not bothering to login until 11am or so.

I’m just surprised that people don’t realize it’s noticeable…and worried these slackers will prompt management to drag us into the office.

No one with kids age 0-16 is sleeping in until 11am. Thx for the laugh

The colleagues at issue don’t have kids. They just aren’t logged in or working.

I sent multiple emails today to people who hadn’t logged in for several hours and never received responses.

Well yes, if they're not logged in, then I expect they are not going to respond. But do you see their timesheets? How do you know they weren't on leave or flexing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these your reports or just colleagues you work with? If they aren’t your reports or impacting your work in some way, who cares. I don’t have the time or energy to track other people’s online status or get irritated about it if they’re offline.

It’s a mix of direct reports, subordinates further down the food chain, and peers at my supervisory level.

The reason I know this is because I’m emailing people with requests and I can see they’ve been offline since early yesterday afternoon. Multiple people. Nobody is officially using leave. Nobody is responding in a timely manner.

This is becoming routine for more and more people.

What I’m noticing is the new casual Friday trend is sleeping in and not bothering to login until 11am or so.

I’m just surprised that people don’t realize it’s noticeable…and worried these slackers will prompt management to drag us into the office.

No one with kids age 0-16 is sleeping in until 11am. Thx for the laugh

The colleagues at issue don’t have kids. They just aren’t logged in or working.

I sent multiple emails today to people who hadn’t logged in for several hours and never received responses.

Look, your issue is a lack of responsiveness. It has nothing to do with Outlook or Teams. They could show green, and you'd still have the same problem. Stop being passive aggressive (and incompetent) and try to actually manage your employees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are these your reports or just colleagues you work with? If they aren’t your reports or impacting your work in some way, who cares. I don’t have the time or energy to track other people’s online status or get irritated about it if they’re offline.

It’s a mix of direct reports, subordinates further down the food chain, and peers at my supervisory level.

The reason I know this is because I’m emailing people with requests and I can see they’ve been offline since early yesterday afternoon. Multiple people. Nobody is officially using leave. Nobody is responding in a timely manner.

This is becoming routine for more and more people.

What I’m noticing is the new casual Friday trend is sleeping in and not bothering to login until 11am or so.

I’m just surprised that people don’t realize it’s noticeable…and worried these slackers will prompt management to drag us into the office.

No one with kids age 0-16 is sleeping in until 11am. Thx for the laugh

The colleagues at issue don’t have kids. They just aren’t logged in or working.

I sent multiple emails today to people who hadn’t logged in for several hours and never received responses.

Look, your issue is a lack of responsiveness. It has nothing to do with Outlook or Teams. They could show green, and you'd still have the same problem. Stop being passive aggressive (and incompetent) and try to actually manage your employees.

Seriously. Give them a call or a text if you’re not getting a response and need one. They’ll learn. And if they don’t have cell phones but work remotely, give them some.