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Custom Statuses and Hybrid Work

You can use your custom status to tell your colleagues your work location. Are you In Office today, working Externally (for instance working from home) or perhaps not working at all? Showing your work location makes it easier to decide how to contact you.

Members can see your custom status (work location) anywhere they can see your name in direct chats and channels. Your work location is also shown in the Members panel for a channel:

Suggested emoji icons and custom statuses

Emoji Icon Name Custom Status
?? Classical Building In Office
? House with Garden Remote
?? Beach with Umbrella Not at work

How to Set Custom Status

  1. Select your profile picture, then select Set a custom status.
  2. Write in one of the custom statuses from the list above and choose its emoji icon. Mattermost will remember your recently used custom statuses, and let you choose them from a Recent list.

    Window for setting a custom status with a list of recently used statuses and suggested statuses
  3. Specify when to clear your custom status.
  4. Select Set Status.

Who is in the office?

Do you need to talk to all members of a channel or a direct chat? Are they in the office, so you could book a meeting room or should you do a video call?

  1. Navigate to the channel or direct chat you want to view members of.
  2. Click on the Members icon in the header of the channel or the chat.
  3. A Members panel opens on the right side in Mattermost, showing all members alphabetically with their custom statuses.
Published May 24, 2025 7:56 AM - Last modified May 24, 2025 9:41 AM