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title: "Work Chat and Presence Research"
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# Work Chat and Presence Research

Explore documented presence behavior, what workplace tools report, and original snapshots with clear methods. Each study separates observations from assumptions and links its sources. Saved availability, online status and actual work are different measures.

-   [Mouse jiggler detection: a documentation review](https://idlepilot.com/research/can-employers-detect-mouse-jigglers/)

    What Teams, Slack, Intune, Defender, ActivTrak, and Hubstaff document about presence, usage, app inventory, and monitoring, with limits and primary sources.

-   [Mouse jigglers at work: what dated public cases establish](https://idlepilot.com/research/mouse-jigglers-at-work-public-cases/)

    Review dated EPA, Wells Fargo, and federal court records involving mouse jigglers, separating verified records, reported dismissals, policy, and unknowns.

-   [Documented presence timeouts in seven work chat apps](https://idlepilot.com/research/presence-timeouts-in-work-chat-apps/)

    Compare documented idle and Away behavior in Teams, Slack, Zoom, Google Chat, Webex, Discord, and Outlook, with platform limits and dated primary sources.

-   [What four Reddit threads recommend for staying green](https://idlepilot.com/research/what-reddit-recommends-to-stay-green/)

    An audit of 80 comments across four public Teams and Slack threads: method counts, exact sample limits, and what Reddit anecdotes cannot establish.

-   [When do people schedule presence?](https://idlepilot.com/research/when-people-schedule-presence/)

    A privacy-protected snapshot of 30 saved Idle Pilot schedules: local start and end hours, default-setting bias, methodology, and what the data cannot show.

-   [Who ranks for Teams presence searches?](https://idlepilot.com/research/who-ranks-for-teams-presence-searches/)

    A reproducible sample of ten Google Teams-presence queries: discussion sites, videos and documentation, with exclusions, source data and clear limits.

## More resources

-   [Free browser tools](https://idlepilot.com/tools/)
-   [Statistics and their original sources](https://idlepilot.com/statistics/)
-   [Ways to keep Microsoft Teams Available](https://idlepilot.com/keep-teams-active/)
-   [Ways to keep Slack active](https://idlepilot.com/keep-slack-active/)
-   [Presence tools compared](https://idlepilot.com/compare/)

Last updated: October 28, 2026