# Guides for small business owners using Microsoft Teams

Short, plain-English answers to the questions we hear most from Australian business owners about Microsoft Teams status. Each guide starts with the answer, quotes Microsoft's own documentation and links to it, and says what Teams status can't tell you as well as what it can. We make Clockless, so we say where it fits, but these guides are written to be useful whether you use it or not.

*Last updated: 9 October 2026 · By Tao Ling, Xcelerent Pty Ltd*

## The guides

- **[Can you see someone's Microsoft Teams status history?](https://clockless.com.au/guides/teams-status-history/)**
  No: Teams shows status as it is right now, and Microsoft doesn't keep a history you can look up.
- **[Why does Teams show me as Away when I'm working?](https://clockless.com.au/guides/teams-away/)**
  Microsoft's rules for computers, phones and several devices, and how long a status you set yourself lasts.
- **[Microsoft Teams presence report: what Microsoft 365 gives you, and what it doesn't](https://clockless.com.au/guides/teams-presence-report/)**
  The activity report, Viva Insights and meeting attendance reports compared, and why none of them shows status over time.

## More guides coming

- The NSW workplace surveillance staff notice, in plain English.
- Is it legal to record staff Teams status in Australia?

These two will be checked by a lawyer before we publish them.

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