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Before Covid I had a recurring 12p-1p busy block in my calendar to prevent folks from dropping lunch time meetings on me. After work from home started, it becam

• notacoward 6y ago
  I tried doing something similar because I was in a different time zone than most of my team. I blocked off 6-9pm my time, which was 3-6pm theirs, so I could have dinner etc. with my family. It didn't work. Out of more than a dozen team members, only two or three tried to accommodate my schedule. The rest either tromped over the reserved time or just left me off the invite for meetings where I should have been included. "Couldn't find a room at another time" was the excuse until COVID, but then the behavior persisted during WFH so I don't think that was really it. Based on that and other similar experiences (I worked from home for almost a decade), I'd say calendar tweaks are not the answer. The problem is culture/habits and therefore so is the solution. If other team members understand and respect the need for continuous blocks of solo time, they'll schedule meetings accordingly, or avoid scheduling meetings at all when the subject matter could/should have been addressed asynchronously. Dedicated "focus blocks" might help them do that better, but first they have to want to do it.
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