[brodo]

Teams also does not allow people to manually set their on/offline status which makes it unusable in some German companies because it can be used for surveillance.

[Zircom]

Is it maybe an option administrators can toggle to be enabled or not, because I just checked and there is definitely a appear offline option on my teams.

https://i.imgur.com/0u1q25H.jpg

[maxerickson]

You can't appear online for a customizable period of time.

So say you are at your desk but not working on the computer with Teams on it (and it is reasonable to be responsive to incoming messages).

[wizzwizz4]

Even if it did, Teams still isn't suitable – it performs so much surveillance that I doubt Microsoft could remove it all.