If you’d like, you can manually set yourself to active or away at any time. Slack also indicates your availability automatically with a dot next to your display name and sets you to away when you’re inactive for a period of time. This displays your time zone and work hour information in your profile so your teammates can see it when they need to.

Depending on what fields are available to edit, edit your time zone and work hours.

Note, this depends on whether your admin has enabled fields for time zone and work hours. Set your time zone and work hours in your profile. Also, if you’re headed into a meeting, for example, you can set your status to let others know you won’t see messages until later. You can do this by keeping your profile up to date with your time zone and working hours. It's helpful to let your teammates know when you won’t be able to respond to messages right away and when you're available. With Slack, you can easily share your whereabouts and availability with your team, and reduce distractions outside of working hours or when you need time to focus. Working hours and schedules can vary for you and the people you work with, so letting your team know when you’re unable to respond to messages right away helps set expectations. You’re set to away after ten minutes of desktop inactivity or if you navigate away or close the app on your mobile device.After completing this unit, you’ll be able to: Slack automatically determines your availability: you’re set to active when Slack is open on your desktop or mobile device. Note: Depending on your workspace or Grid org settings, your status may be visible to members of other organisations in channels shared externally.įrom the dot next to your name, your teammates can see whether you’re set to active or away, and if you’ve paused your notifications.

Tap your current status to edit it, or tap the icon to clear it.

Tap Clear after to choose when your status will clear.

Enter a status, then tap the emoji icon to select an emoji, if you like.

Tap the You tab at the bottom of your screen.Click on your current status to edit it, or click on Clear status to remove it.If you like, tick the box next to Pause notifications to turn off notifications until your status clears.

Click on Clear after to choose when your status will clear.

Enter a status and select an emoji or choose a suggested status option.

From your desktop, click on your profile picture in the top right.

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