Prevent Desktop Client Popping Up (Schedules? Team Chat?)

[Kat_AS]

I'm using Windows 11, OS and client fully updated. My Zoom account is managed by corporate IT.

The client will not stay minimized to the system tray no matter what options I select. I'm not sure what is prompting the client to restore itself, but it's either scheduled meetings or unread chat messages from those meetings. Either way, I do not want this. We do not use "Team Chat". I do not care about unread chat messages from expired meetings. I do not want Zoom to remind me that I have a call coming. We already have tools for these functions and throwing out redundant notifications is not going to inspire us to use them instead. 

How do I keep the zoom client permanently minimized in my system tray unless I specifically open it myself? 

If there's no solution for this, I'm going to keep myself logged out of zoom, which is a subpar experience.