Tracking Employee Activity

We are using Microsoft Teams and all of our employees are working remotely now.  While using Microsoft teams, I noticed that some of the employees that are supposedly "working" show their status as "Away" for much of the day.  I was wondering if there was a report that I could pull that would show how much time an employee had of each status (Away, Busy, Available).   Or is there is another automatic Microsoft teams plugin that doesn't require "clocking in" that could report how much time each employees are spending on their computer and perhaps even how much in each application.  All employees have a company owned and issue laptop.

Hey, so before you go firing anyone over this, please realize there are several threads complaining about Teams showing as away, when the employee is actively working but, not directly in Teams, after two-five minutes. I know because it was happening to me, and I’m here to find answers (which I haven’t). This was a change apparently that happened this month.

Also, in my experience, micromanaged employees aren’t always the most productive, or loyal. Happy, trusted employees are though. Good luck!

Unless there's a documented and legal reason to track an employee's usage of the computer, a good manager will not need such functionality. A good manager will engage its reports to work in a measurable manner with set goals that can be tracked either based on a project plan (for project employees) or operational indicators. Only a bad manager needs close surveillance of employees to compensate for its own shortcomings. There's no argument to counter these facts. As such, I agree with Hannah above.

Are you wanting to manage your team as a people leader, or to babysit them as a micromanager? My advice to managers with this mindset is to seek professional guidance in learning to become an effective leader where others desire to follow you.

From my research Microsoft unfortunately doesn't have a solution.  Microsoft support also doesn't seem to read questions carefully on what you are looking for and just posts unrelated answers so it seems like they are helping you.

I'm sure there are some third party solutions out there, but you think that Microsoft Teams would have something in there.  Even if it's not tracking their full computer activity, that it is at least tracking a summary of the overall amount of time that the person is active in teams.

Unrealistic, unless your employees are supposed to work on a computer all the time (which can be dangerous to their health) and they cannot set their MS Teams status manually. In the knowledge economy, one realizes the brain has peaks and troughs of activity, and it needs “distractions” while it processes stuff in the background trying to find solutions. One of our high ranking executives often plays Solitaire on her desktop computer while in a TC and really she is the best of us all professionaly. If you cannot motivate your team to do their jobs then you have a problem that surveillance software will not help solve. Good look with your micromanaging.