Joining a Teams meeting for 8 hours - AIBU to think they're bunking off work?

[66y6dd]

Every Monday morning we have a company-wide meeting. I began to notice a few weeks ago that in the Teams chat for the meeting it will often say that the meeting ended after 7-8ish hours. The meeting is only 30 minutes. Since I first noticed it one of my Monday highlights is seeing if it happens again (my job is boring so this is fun for me), and every Monday without fail the meeting will end at around 5:30-6pm-ish aka the end of the working day. We don't have rooms booked for the meeting so it's not a room booking causing this.

AIBU to think someone joins this company meeting on a Monday morning and stays on it all day so that they always show as 'in a meeting' on Teams whilst they go about their day?

@Teder if you're in a meeting it shows you in a meeting/call whether you're at your computer or not

You can easily just book your own time to look busy even if doing nothing, unless you’re being managed by someone checking up on your calendar. I manage my own time and am currently working in two different systems. One is where most of my meetings are happening so on the other I’ve just blocked out my time every day to stop double bookings, with the result that I look constantly busy on there but with no evident meetings, and no one has asked anything at all.

Loooool

Does it not go away if you’re inactive in the meting though? I never knew this!

@Teder I think potentially organisations can set their own settings but for mine it definitely stays as in a meeting

Meanwhile meetings that are of so little value you can be out and about doing whatever we just don't bother to have- how pointless.

Easy enough to see who it is by rejoining the meeting, so not an effective tactic for skiving, if that's the aim.