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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Microsoft Outlook – Changes for Meeting Schedules

April 21, 2021

As the work from home environment has become commonplace, we are all living through meeting hell. It is not uncommon to have meetings scheduled back-to-back with no break separation. The Verge reported that Microsoft is going to change that. As the post stated, “Companies can set their own scheduling defaults, and they’re fully customizable. That means you could have five minutes blocked off before or after a 30-minute meeting, or 10-15 minutes after hourlong meetings. Individuals can also set their own scheduling defaults, but the company-wide option is the significant change here.”

You can set these values by selecting the option in the calendar settings. Just because Outlook can automatically schedule breaks between meetings doesn’t mean it will actually happen for a real meeting. Perhaps we won’t be able to change people’s habits, but at least we can encourage stopping back-to-back scheduled meetings.

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