Updated Working Hours in Calendar helps colleagues know your schedule
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
- Working hours now show in grid view: When you schedule a meeting with other Calendar users, their working hours will be shown in the calendar grid.
- New warning note for event creators: If you try to schedule an event outside the working hours of one more or guests, you’ll now see a notification.
- Working hours is ON by default: Working hours will now be turned on for all users by default. Users can turn it off at any point in Calendar’s settings (see more below).
A new notification will show if an event outside the working hours of guests.
- Admins: No action required.
- End users:
- Working Hours will be enabled by default. When it’s first enabled, users will see a dialog (shown below) with an estimate of their working hours, which they can confirm or change. Users can disable the feature by selecting “Settings” in this dialog.
- Users can later adjust or disable Working Hours by going to Calendar on the web (calendar.google.com) and clicking Settings > General > Working hours.
- Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1-3 days for feature visibility) starting on September 2, 2019
- Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1-3 days for feature visibility) starting on September 16, 2019
G Suite editions
Available to all G Suite editions
On/off by default?
This feature will be ON by default.
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