The problem with working at the large company is that every manager will see open calendar as an invitation to put in some meetings. For this reason I am booki

The problem with working at the large company is that every manager will see open calendar as an invitation to put in some meetings. For this reason I am booking in my calendar actual working time. Since I am based in Europe and work with people in both US and Asia, I do this smack in the middle of the day so that I can have meetings with APAC in the morning and with US at the end of my working day. I frequently have managers asking me why my calendar is booked so much to which I respond, "why YOUR calendar is booked so much". This of course has to follow with suitable explanation which is more or less based on this essay which I read many years ago.