The App That Solves the Teams Presence Problem
Microsoft Teams flips your status to Away after about 5 minutes of inactivity. Mouse jigglers work only while your computer is on. Browser extensions work only while your browser is open. Manual selections expire when Teams detects sustained inactivity. None of these solve the actual problem: how do you stay Available when you're genuinely not at your machine?
Stay Green On Teams is the cloud-based answer. Your Teams Available status is maintained from a server — not from your laptop, not from your phone, not from your browser. You can close every device you own and your dot stays green for as many hours as you've scheduled.
How It Works in Three Steps
Step 1: Install the Chrome extension. One-time setup. Install from the Chrome Web Store, sign into Microsoft Teams once via teams.microsoft.com or teams.live.com. The extension reads your Teams session credentials and sends them securely to your private Stay Green account.
Step 2: Configure your schedule. From the Stay Green dashboard, set the hours and days you want to appear Available. Choose your timezone from the full IANA list. Toggle "Always On" if you don't want a schedule. Save.
Step 3: Walk away. Close Teams. Close your browser. Shut your laptop. Drive home. Your Available status stays lit throughout — the cloud worker handles it from there.
What Makes It Different
Nothing runs on your device
There's no software for your computer to wake up. There's no process for IT monitoring to flag. There's no cursor moving on your screen. Your screensaver and screen lock work normally. The only local footprint is the one-time Chrome extension you installed to capture your session — and you can disable that extension after setup if you want.
Schedule-aware presence
Set the exact hours you want to appear Available. The cloud worker runs only during those hours and stops outside them. Outside your schedule, you appear Away naturally — same as if you'd closed your client at end of day. This is more honest than always-on tools that have you green at 2am on a Saturday.
Timezone-correct
Configure your IANA timezone (America/New_York, Europe/London, Pacific/Auckland, whatever). The schedule respects daylight savings transitions automatically. Travel across timezones and either update the setting or leave it — your schedule means what you set, not what your laptop's clock thinks.
Works alongside your real Teams clients
If you're actually at your computer using Teams, your real client signals activity normally. Stay Green doesn't conflict — it just provides an additional always-available presence signal. The result is that you're Available whenever you're actually using Teams OR whenever Stay Green is running, whichever applies.
Use Cases Stay Green On Teams Was Built For
The hybrid worker who has meetings in conference rooms, coffees with stakeholders, focus blocks where they shut their laptop. Their Teams dot tells colleagues "I'm reachable" while they're physically moving through the workday.
The remote contractor who works asynchronously across time zones. Their team expects them to be "available during agreed hours" — Stay Green ensures that's visible without requiring constant device presence.
The traveling executive who's on planes, in cars, between meetings. Their laptop is closed for hours at a time but their team needs to see them as Available during business hours.
The deep-work knowledge worker who writes, codes, or designs for long stretches without keyboard activity. Their flow state shouldn't be punished with a yellow dot that misrepresents their availability.
What It's Not
It's not a hack or workaround. Stay Green On Teams uses Microsoft's standard authentication and presence APIs — the same ones your real Teams client uses. Nothing is bypassed; nothing is faked. Your account simply has another presence-maintaining session running in the cloud.
It's not against Teams' Terms of Service. Microsoft Teams' Terms do not prohibit using tools to manage how your presence appears. Presence indicators are informational, not access controls.
It's not a privacy concern. Your session credentials are stored encrypted in your private account. Nothing about your activity, your messages, or your meetings is read, transmitted, or stored. Stay Green only signals "this user's presence is Available" — nothing else.
Pricing and Trial
Stay Green On Teams is live with a 14-day free trial, no credit card required. The same $3.99/mo subscription covers Stay Green On Slack — one account, both platforms, no per-platform charges.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I install Stay Green On Teams?
The setup is: (1) Sign up at staygreenonslack.com/app, (2) install the Stay Green Chrome extension, (3) open Microsoft Teams in Chrome once so the extension can capture your session, (4) configure your schedule and timezone on the dashboard, (5) toggle on. From that point, your Available status is maintained from the cloud.
Does Stay Green On Teams work with corporate Microsoft 365 accounts?
The initial release supports personal Microsoft accounts (Teams Free / teams.live.com). Support for corporate Microsoft 365 tenants is planned but depends on tenant-level admin policies, which vary by organization. Corporate users with Single Sign-On may need IT approval first.
Can my company's IT department detect that I'm using Stay Green On Teams?
Local IT monitoring (process audits, screen recording, mouse-input logs) won't see anything — the service runs entirely from our cloud, not your machine. From inside Microsoft Teams' admin tools, your account would appear to have an additional active client connected, which is normal behaviour.
What happens if I'm actually at my computer using Teams?
Nothing changes. Your real Teams client signals activity normally, and Stay Green's cloud worker also signals activity. Both sources contribute to your Available state — no conflict, no override.
How is Stay Green different from a mouse jiggler?
A mouse jiggler simulates input on your local machine — it requires your computer to be on, unlocked, and not in sleep. Stay Green maintains presence in Microsoft's cloud from a server. Your machine can be closed, off, or thousands of miles away.
Is Stay Green On Teams against Microsoft's Terms of Service?
Microsoft Teams' Terms of Service do not prohibit using tools to manage how your presence appears. Presence indicators are informational, not access controls, and there's no specific policy against tools that maintain Available status.