Thursday, January 19, 2017

Smarter meeting scheduling in Google Calendar on the web

Last year, we made scheduling meetings smarter in Google Calendar for Androidand iPhoneby enabling them to find time for meetings and book rooms. Today, we're happy to announce that room suggestions and showing guests' time zones are coming to Google Calendar on the web.

Room suggestions
When you create meetings, Calendar will suggest rooms based on your and your guests' previously used rooms. You can continue to browse or search for rooms as you do today.



Guest time zones
Finding time to collaborate across time zones is now easier with Google Calendar. The "Find a time" tab shows the time of the meeting in the time zone of each guest – if they are different. You can can learn more about sharing calendars and time zones here.



We have more scheduling improvements planned for 2017 including better ways to help you manage calendar resources. Stay tuned!

Launch Details
Release track:
Launching to Rapid release, with Scheduled release coming in 2 weeks
Editions:
Available to all G Suite editions
Rollout pace:
Gradual rollout (potentially longer than 3 days for feature visibility)
Impact: 
All end users
Action:
Change management suggested/FYI

More information
Help Center: Add or remove a resource from an event
Help Center: About calendar resources (rooms, etc)

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