Microsoft Teams is quick to mark you Away — often after just a few minutes idle, and sometimes the moment you minimise the window. If your team treats the status dot as a stand-in for availability, that's a problem.
The manual tricks (and why they fall short)
You can set your status to "Available" manually, but Teams overrides it once it detects inactivity. You can pin Teams and keep it focused, but that means never leaving your desk. Neither survives a real break.
Keep the machine genuinely active
The only reliable way to stay green is to keep your computer registering activity. Virtual Mouse Jiggler does exactly that — tiny, human-like cursor movements on a randomised schedule, plus keeping the screen awake so Teams never sees an idle window. Set your cadence, hit start, and your Teams status stays accurate to how you actually work.