Forum Discussion
How much should Teams presence influence call routing
One thing I've noticed recently is that many Teams Phone environments still treat presence as a destination state rather than a routing input.
A typical flow might look like:
Caller selects an option
Call is transferred
User is unavailable
Caller ends up in voicemail or another queue
Technically the routing worked.
From the caller's perspective, it often didn't.
I'm curious how others are approaching this.
Are you using Teams presence as part of your call-routing logic?
For example:
Available → transfer immediately
Busy → offer an alternative path
In a meeting → capture context
Offline → route elsewhere
Or are traditional queues and escalation paths still sufficient for most scenarios?
Interested to hear what people are doing in real deployments.