- Who it’s for
- Employees
- Software
- Outlook or Google Calendar
- Setup
- 2 minutes
- Gives back
- The awkward reschedule emails, every week
Step-by-step walkthrough
- In Outlook: File → Options → Calendar → Automatic accept or decline
- In Google: Settings → General → Event settings → “Automatically add invitations” off, and decline conflicts manually or via a workspace rule
- Enable decline of invitations that conflict with an existing event where your product supports it
Get the rest of the steps and the one-page PDF
Steps 4 and 5, what to watch for, and a one-page PDF to keep.
Where the recovered time should go
Not into doing more of the same. That is the whole argument — the hour you get back isn’t a cost you’ve cut, it’s a return you can finally collect. Put it on a client, on the person you have been meaning to train, or on the work that has been good enough for two years.