What’s changing
We’re introducing a new Google Calendar entry type, Focus time, so you can block out and protect your time for heads-down individual work. Similar to the Out of office event type, focus time has a different appearance on your calendar and includes the option to automatically decline conflicting events.
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| Create a Focus time entry in Calendar |
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| Focus time appears with a headphones icon on your calendar |
Who’s impacted
End users
Why it’s important
With the changes to our working environments in the past year, having more chats and meetings make it more difficult for people to carve out time for their core individual work. With the new focus time feature, we hope to make it easier to create dedicated time for thinking and core work.
Additional details
You can choose to assign a new color to have your focus time have a different visibility from your events and other meetings.
Additionally, your scheduled focus time will also be tracked in your Time Insights.
Getting started
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
- End users: This feature will be ON by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using focus time.
Rollout pace
- Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on October 20, 2021
- Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 3, 2021
Availability
- Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Teaching & Learning Upgrade, Education Standard, Education Plus, and Nonprofits customers
- Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Frontline and as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers