The whole team at once
See everyone’s availability together instead of hovering over profile pictures one at a time.
desk.fm and status emojis
A status emoji only tells half the story.
Slack and Microsoft Teams let you set a status icon and a short line of text, buried behind a profile picture. desk.fm puts the whole team’s status, availability, and current focus on one board that’s actually easy to glance at.
Built as a feature vs. built as the product.
| Chat status | A small icon and optional text, set manually, tucked inside a much larger chat app. | Useful as a footnote to conversations, easy to forget and easy to miss. |
|---|---|---|
| desk.fm | A dedicated live board showing every teammate’s availability and current focus at once. | Built to stay open and glanceable, not buried behind a chat sidebar. |
Slack’s status feature lets people set an emoji and short text manually. Microsoft Teams offers a similar presence indicator tied mostly to calendar and activity state. See Slack’s status help documentation. desk.fm is designed to be the primary view, not a secondary detail.
What a status emoji can’t show you.
What someone is actually doing
Share current focus in a sentence, not a single emoji chosen from a limited set.
A status that doesn’t get forgotten
desk.fm is designed around keeping status current, not a setting people set once and ignore.
Keep your chat status. Add a real board.
desk.fm doesn’t ask you to give up Slack or Teams. It gives your team a dedicated place for availability and focus, so a status update doesn’t have to compete with channels, threads, and notifications for attention.
Give status a place of its own.
Create a live board your team actually looks at.
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