> For something like a work place communication tools such as Slack I can understand the purpose of setting yourself active or idle manually to indicate whether

> For something like a work place communication tools such as Slack I can understand the purpose of setting yourself active or idle manually to indicate whether you're available for messages, or in a different time zone, or whatever. That's a different use case. I just never set myself online, I wave in a morning, I wave at the end of the day but I treat slack as async, I read the message and reply on my schedule. I expect the same of the people I lead, we are developers, we require been able to block out chunks of distraction free time to work properly.