In brief: At present that more people are working from abode, meetings are taking up a bigger chunk of employees' working days. To assistance go on track of how much fourth dimension is spent in collaborative gatherings, Google is adding a "Time Insights" console to Calendar on the web.

Google writes that Time Insights gives users a breakup of data based on their meetings for the week. This includes the corporeality of time spent in 1-on-ones with others, meetings with three or more guests, and how long the sessions lasted, all via easy-to-read pie charts and bar charts.

The characteristic also highlights the days when meetings have upwardly most of an employee's working hours, along with meeting frequency. Users can besides meet which co-workers they spend the about time in meetings with and pin key people to ensure they're keeping in touch with them. Some other helpful tool is the ability to hover over an individual to highlight meetings on the calendar that include that person.

In December, Microsoft responded to backlash against its Productivity Score tool in Microsoft 365, which essentially immune managers to monitor employees' activities, by removing usernames from the feature, stopping companies from accessing information about individuals. Information technology seems Google may have taken mind; the information in Time Insights is only available to users, non managers—though anyone who manages other people'due south calendars and has "manage sharing admission" permission tin view Time Insights.

Fourth dimension Insights is rolling out over the next few weeks and will exist available for users on the Google Workspace Business Standard, Concern Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Instruction Plus, and Nonprofits subscription tiers. Some users, including Yard Suite Basic and Concern customers, won't get access. Information technology's only coming to desktop browsers—no discussion on the feature launching on mobile.

During the height of the lockdowns terminal twelvemonth, a Microsoft written report found people working from home were spending more time in meetings each twenty-four hours; even though their lengths had decreased, the frequency of meetings had shot up.

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