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Comment by mjayhn | Hacker News Reader

I learned that Teams has idle reporting recently. Now I don't trust any of these collaboration apps.

Got a source on that? - I can only find the following:

- Display name is the display name of the user. You can click the display name to go to the user's setting page in the Microsoft Teams admin center.

- 1:1 calls is the number of 1:1 calls that the user participated in during the specified time period.

- Channel messages is the number of unique messages that the user posted in a team chat during the specified time period.

- Reply messages is the number of unique reply messages that the user posted in a team channel during the specified time period.

- Post messages is the number of unique post messages that the user posted in a team channel during the specified time period.

- Meetings organized is the number of scheduled meetings a user organized during the specified time period.

- Meetings participated is the number of scheduled meetings a user participated in during the specified time period.

- Chat messages is the number of unique messages that the user posted in a private chat during the specified time period.

- Urgent messages is the number of urgent messages that the user posted in a chat during the specified time period.

- Group Calls is the number of group calls that the user participated in during the specified time period.

- Audio time is the total audio time that the user participated in during the specified time period.

- Video time is the total video time that the user participated in during the specified time period.

- Screen Share time is the total screen share time that the user participated in during the specified time period.

- Last activity is the last date (UTC) that the user participated in a Teams activity.

From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-analyt...

Ok now that I'm reading I'm wondering if I'm wrong, but I'm seeing some posts about it having an idle tracker and that lurkfromhome website exists which is what really solidified my decision. I'm looking around more, I'll post if I find anything, let me know if you do, because I was pissed when I found out.

Skype for Business, Lync, and in the dark ages Office Communicator even had it. If you left IM open and your PC unlocked but you weren't using it, after a user set delay your status would turn to idle. You can't set the timeout in Teams anymore, IIRC.

Does Slack not have this? I'm 99% sure Zoom does as well.

I admined slack long long before it had any Enterprise bolts so I'm sure it has stuff like that now. Teams makes it front and center so you can track your employees interactions and chats, calls (not emails like I thought).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-activi...

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