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# Setting up a TaskRouter Workspace: Understanding Activities

Activities represent the discrete states that a Worker can be in at any given time. Valid Activity labels might include 'offline', 'busy', 'wrapping-up', or 'vacation'. Each Activity has a special property called 'Available' that determines whether a Worker currently engaged in this Activity should be considered eligible for new Task Reservations.

With your Workspace open in the [TaskRouter console](https://www.twilio.com/console/taskrouter/workspaces), click 'Activities' to see the default Activities that were provided when you created this Workspace:

![Table showing worker activities: Offline, Idle, Busy, Reserved with availability status.](https://docs-resources.prod.twilio.com/aff4b21d5df489c1296fca0c1c3092ab6038a96d56be2421aaf5851d9ea03d25.png)

These default Activities work well for the example application, so you don't need to make any changes.

[Finally: Wrapping Up »](/docs/taskrouter/quickstart/php/setup-wrapping-up)