It knows you are on leave, and stops asking.
A green dot that means nothing is worse than no dot at all. Presence here reads the calendar, the call you are on and the leave that was approved last week, so a colleague sees why you are not answering before they ask.
What a colleague sees
- In a meeting until 3From the calendar, not from a status somebody forgot
- On leave until MondayBecause HR approved it, and chat knows
- Do not disturbAcross the whole product, not one room
Presence
Five states, and nobody has to set four of them.
Every other chat tool asks people to keep their own status up to date, which is a thing nobody does past the second week. Ours reads what is already true.
Read from the calendar, not from somebody remembering to set it
Because the call is in the same product
Approved leave, so nobody has to be told twice
Idle, quietly, without announcing it
Set by them, across everything, not per room
Approved leave silences the notifications, without anybody being asked to remember.
Do not disturb that actually holds.
Set it once and it applies everywhere: chat, mentions, calls and the notifications on your phone. Leave does the same thing on its own, so somebody on holiday is not pulled back in by a channel they forgot to mute.
While it is on
- EverywhereNot a per-room setting you configure fifteen times
- Including your phonePush stops too, which is the point
- Leave countsApproved time off does it without being asked
Loud where it matters, quiet where it does not.
Choose how much each room is allowed to interrupt you: everything, only when you are mentioned, or nothing until you go looking. The rooms you actually work in are the ones that reach your phone.
Per room
- EverythingFor the two rooms that are your job
- Mentions onlyFor the twenty that are not
- NothingWithout leaving, so you can still search it
One place for everything that named you.
Mentions collect in their own inbox, so coming back after a day off is one list rather than nineteen unread rooms. And in a direct conversation you can see whether it was read, which settles the question people otherwise ask out loud.
Coming back
- A mentions inboxEverything that named you, in one list
- Read receiptsIn a direct conversation, so nobody asks
- Search firstRather than scrolling nineteen rooms