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

[Anonymous]

It’s Friday morning, nearly 11am, and the majority of my colleagues have been offline for upwards of 15 to 24 hours. I can see this in outlook and teams.

Does everyone realize this info is available?

Does anyone care?

I’m tempted to schedule Thursday afternoon and Friday morning meetings just to make sure people are working some hours.

[Anonymous]

Any chance your colleagues think today is a holiday? (Veterans Day observed?)

[Anonymous]

Why? Most weeks I don’t have enough work to actually work 40 hours and I hit all my targets. People can work so much more efficiently these days so I’d find something to do that makes you happy.

[Anonymous]

15-24 hours hmm? Hopefully they're getting work done offline. You can always ask for some EOD reports for Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any chance your colleagues think today is a holiday? (Veterans Day observed?)

Nope. It’s not a holiday for us.

Plus, this is becoming the new normal on Thursday afternoons/Fridays.

If people keep this up, I’m confident we will be dragged back into the office everyday.

People aren’t working.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Well you’re “online,” but you’re on DCUM. So there’s that.

A huge part of my work is writing. I deliberately stay off of email/Slack, etc., during focus time.

[Anonymous]

Our Teams and Outlook can get really glitchy with status. I was stuck on yellow for a few days this week. So it might be something like that. Or you might consider minding your own business.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

My TEAMS will show I’m offline when I am actively working. It’s not fool proof

[Anonymous]

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.

What is the company's bottom line? How is the stock? Are the shareholders making less money? At so many of these companies profits are soaring, but somehow, managers are acting like the sky is falling and want to own all of their employees' time. Why? What more do capitalists want from people? Their firstborn child as tribute?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well you’re “online,” but you’re on DCUM. So there’s that.

A huge part of my work is writing. I deliberately stay off of email/Slack, etc., during focus time.

Touché.

But I average 10 hour days and often get pulled into meetings late at night and weekends.

Seeing worker bees offline for significant chunks of the day is problematic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well you’re “online,” but you’re on DCUM. So there’s that.

A huge part of my work is writing. I deliberately stay off of email/Slack, etc., during focus time.

Same. I create reports based on data sets and a huge portion of my day is spent analyzing data in spreadsheets and creating charts and analysis from them. It can all happen offline, and I take advantage of this to work in places where I don't have internet access so that I can work uninterrupted for hours at a time.

Like this morning I checked email at 8am, but then went to a coffee shop (and kept my computer offline) to get some work done. I only just logged on again to check email and take a "brain break" by visiting DCUM. But if OP is one of my colleagues, they probably think I took a 3 hour nap this morning and am only just now getting to work, when the opposite is true.

I find it very hard to do my work while getting pinged constantly on email or Slack. I need deep focus, which means minimizing interruptions.

[Anonymous]

I never use my Teams except for meetings, so I'm always offline. I need the retention of email for my work, but I'm online all the time and very responsive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s Friday morning, nearly 11am, and the majority of my colleagues have been offline for upwards of 15 to 24 hours. I can see this in outlook and teams.

Does everyone realize this info is available?

Does anyone care?

I’m tempted to schedule Thursday afternoon and Friday morning meetings just to make sure people are working some hours.

Is work not getting done? Are they paid by the hour? What is the point of your meeting besides trying to punishing employees? If you are a manager do you get paid and evaluated on quantity and quality of the work produced or by the number of hours employees are online?