Who governs your time? How do you maintain productivity when faced with eight daily meetings?

Google Calendar dashboard from the Coupler.io team showed me that most of the time I set the meetings - 64.7%. The rest are meetings from other people and recurring meetings. Here lies a potential point of improvement in my schedule: recurring meetings could be discussed with the team. Perhaps some of them could be replaced with status updates in Slack or via email, or the frequency of these meetings could be changed — for instance, shifting from weekly to biweekly. By doing this, it's possible to reduce meeting time and free it up for tasks that bring more value.

When I tried your calendar dashboard, I found out that I was the master of my time in 2023. The rate is 80% to 20%. However, I did not expect that result. So, it was pretty insightful to discover this.

Before I set up the dashboard and checked the stats, I honestly thought that meeting organizers would be 50% me/50% colleagues or so. In fact, 81% of my meetings in recent months were organized by me. So it's good that I control my schedule. At the same time, am I that person who adds it-could-me-a-message type of meetings ad-hoc to other people's calendars? 😀😀

It was interesting to see how many days were spent on meeting for the whole year and avg. number of days spent on meetings per month)

Seeing the data from my Google Calendar from last year is helpful to better organize time and manage work more conveniently for this year. For sure, many meetings can be just an email. It is all about productivity.