If you have to be specific, they are opening themselves up for a lawsuit, but if they just ask you to put BRB or something - then nah fam.
thats how i feel, ok, im away, going to lunch, but does evrryone need to know i gotta pee, and its not a company policy
Alternatively you can be very explicit - and that'll show em how silly of a rule it is. Like "Be back in 15 min, gotta excrete feces and check my Facebook."
I'll slack my private group - "going out for lunch. Taking a walk." So they know I won't be in the office for an hour or two
Take your laptop to go poop and tell people you’re working from toilet.
Most people will probably have that channel on mute so it's okay. But yeah it's super weird and invasion of privacy.
its like a group chat for all in our dept, and if u go get coffee or water, bathroom, break, lunch, gotta right it down so all can see where u r