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In Outlook, green means Available, red Busy, In a meeting or Do not disturb, yellow Away, grey Offline or unknown, and purple Out of office. The dot comes from Microsoft Teams presence, not from Outlook. What sets each color, why the status is greyed out, whether you can hide it, and how calendar Show as colors differ.

Your employer cannot look up a second job in any government or payroll database. They find out through employment verification services such as The Work Number, the multiple-jobs box on your W-4, LinkedIn, activity on the work laptop, and overlapping hours. What each channel shows, what it does not, and how to check your own record.

To stop a Windows 11 computer from sleeping, open Settings, System, Power & battery, Screen, sleep & hibernate timeouts and set the sleep timers to Never. On a Mac, turn on Prevent automatic sleeping in Energy or Battery settings, or run caffeinate. Steps for Windows 11, Windows 10 and macOS, one command for each, why a PC sleeps too fast, and what to do on a locked-down work laptop.

Idle on Discord, the yellow crescent moon, means the person is signed in but has not used their computer for about 10 minutes, has left the Discord app on an Android phone, or set Idle by hand. Idle vs online, the idle color and icon, how long it takes, and what server AFK timeouts do.

To stop Ubuntu from locking the screen, open Settings, Privacy & Security, Screen Lock, turn off Automatic Screen Lock and set Blank Screen Delay to Never. The same fix as gsettings commands, how to stop suspend too, how to pause the lock for one task, and the equivalents for KDE Plasma and Linux Mint.

Yes. On Android, leaving the Discord app turns your status from online to idle, the yellow moon, at once; on iPhone it depends on when iOS suspends Discord, and on a computer it takes 10 minutes. What others see on mobile, when you go offline, and how to stay online or hide it.

The Outlook Calendar app for Slack connects a Microsoft 365 calendar to Slack: event reminders, join buttons, invitations you can answer in Slack, and Status Sync, which sets In a meeting, Working remotely or Out of Office from your calendar. How to set it up, why the status sometimes does not update, and what to do on on-premise Exchange.

Teams does not show coworkers a map of where you are. It shows a work location, In the office, a building name or Remote, when you set one or when your company turns on workplace check-in, which reads the office Wi-Fi. Your profile card shows your local time, and admins see sign-in IP addresses. What each feature shares and how to turn it off.

Bossware is employee monitoring software that records what workers do on their computers: apps and websites, active and idle time, and often screenshots, keystrokes or webcam photos. What it records, the common products, how it differs from security software, what the law says, and how to check for it.

Yes. A video playing in Chrome, Edge, Safari or a player app keeps the screen on and stops the computer from sleeping, because the player asks the system for a wake lock. It stops working when the video is paused, muted in a hidden tab, or is only a GIF, and it never counts as activity for Slack or Teams.

Yes. On Zoom app 6.6.5 and later, a meeting with no activity for 55 minutes shows a 5-minute countdown and then ends. Free hosts also hit a 40-minute cap however active the call is, and any meeting ends 40 minutes after only one person is left. What each limit is, how to turn off the inactivity timer, and how to stay on longer than 40 minutes.

Eight checks for monitoring on a work laptop, with Windows and Mac commands, what each can and cannot prove, and the real output of the Mac checks on a computer with no monitoring.

Zoom records when you join and leave a meeting, your device, IP address and approximate location. It does not see your other apps, tabs, keystrokes, mouse or eye movement; the attention tracker that flagged an unfocused Zoom window was removed on April 2, 2020. What each role can see, and where the real tracking happens.

In Webex, a green icon means available, orange means busy, red means do not disturb, a moon means quiet hours and a clock with 'Active X minutes ago' means not active. All ten Webex status icons, the order Webex ranks them in, and how to change yours.

Use a status message for a few hours and a scheduled out of office for days away, which also turns on your Outlook auto-reply. The steps for desktop and phone, the setting that shows your message when people write to you, and message examples.

On a work laptop or the work network, usually yes. The network sees every site name, an inspection proxy or monitoring agent sees full pages, and Incognito hides history only on the device. What each layer sees and how to check yours.

Your employer can see your screen in four situations: when you share it, when monitoring software takes screenshots or recordings, during a remote support session, or in a recorded virtual desktop. How to check a work laptop for each.

On Discord, Invisible and Offline show the same gray status. Offline means you are not signed in on any device. Invisible means you use Discord as normal, including sending messages, while everyone sees you as offline. What still gives you away, and what Invisible cannot do.

Change the Slack notification sound under Preferences, Notifications, Sounds & appearance on desktop, or Notifications, Sound on a phone. All 13 sounds measured from the files inside Slack, why the desktop sound follows your account, and why swapping sound files breaks the app.

You cannot hide your Discord status from one person or one server. The app sends one status for the whole account, with no field for a person or server, as its code shows. What Invisible, blocking, ignoring, removing a friend and per-server activity settings hide instead.

Slack focus mode is a desktop feature you turn on from the sidebar. It turns Slack grayscale, replaces numbered badges with dots, pauses notification sounds (VIPs optional) and sets your status to In focus mode for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours or until you turn it off. How it differs from pausing notifications, and what it does not change.

Caffeine for Windows is a free Zhorn Software tray app that keeps your PC awake with an F15 key event every 59 seconds. We downloaded caffeine.zip on 3 October 2026 and checked both exe files: sizes, SHA-256, signature, VirusTotal results and the tray icons, plus the switches worth using and how it compares with PowerToys Awake.

100+ funny Microsoft Teams status messages grouped by situation: meetings, focus time, working from home, breaks, Mondays, Fridays and out of office. Plus how to set one in Teams, the 280-character limit, and when to keep it plain.

Yes, if your company keeps Teams messages with a retention policy or a hold. The chat shows only that a message was deleted, but compliance admins can find the full text with eDiscovery, and the originals of edited messages too.

Your employer can see you through the laptop camera during video calls, and only through software that turns the camera on. How to tell when the camera is on in Windows 11 and macOS, which monitoring tools take webcam photos, and what the law allows.

Inactive on Microsoft Teams means Teams set you to Away by itself: about 5 minutes with no input on the computer, a locked screen, or the phone app in the background. How it differs from Appear away, Be right back and Offline.

To set yourself Away on Zoom, click your profile picture and choose Away (on a phone: profile picture, Availability, Away). Zoom clears a manual Away as soon as you use Zoom again, so for a status that stays, use Busy, Do not disturb or Out of office. How to set each one, and how to make Zoom set Away for you.

Teams on a phone stays green only while the app is on screen and the phone is unlocked; in the background you turn Away at once. On a computer it is 5 minutes with no input, a timer we printed from the Teams client code on 2 November 2026.

Amphetamine is the best free app to keep a Mac awake: it runs from the menu bar, has triggers for apps, Wi-Fi and power, and can keep a MacBook awake with the lid closed. KeepingYouAwake and Caffeine are the one-click open-source picks, Lungo is the paid one, and the built-in caffeinate command needs no install.

Select your profile picture, your status, then Appear offline, or type /offline. It lasts until you change it, messages still reach you, and read receipts can still give you away.