If you feel like all you do is sit in meetings these days, you wouldn’t be entirely wrong. In this blog post, we’re going to look at the top issues with scheduling tools, and share 4 effective automations to help you book appointments faster through a smarter meeting scheduler for Google Calendar in 2023. With over half the standard workweek dedicated to collaboration, busy professionals are looking to optimize their meeting scheduling so they can spend less time writing back-and-forth emails, avoid meeting conflicts that derail their weekly plans, and unblock more hours for their actual task work. The average burnout rate across industries sat at a shocking 60.2% rate as of October 2022 – in big part because employees report not having enough time for focused work on their tasks around everything else in their calendar. Unfortunately, juggling a jam-packed meeting calendar isn’t just a simple inconvenience for today's employees. The busiest professionals, with 15 or more meetings a week, attend an average of 39.3 meetings – a 37.9% increase since February 2020.
Between one-on-one meetings, team meetings, and client or customer meetings, just the average professional sits through 25.6 meetings every week. Whether you’re working at the office, fully remote, or in a hybrid work model – your calendar is likely (generously) peppered with meetings.
