We bring you the most useful updates from Google in the month of March.
When a Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals or Education Plus host leaves their meeting, they can now choose to keep others on the call or to end the call instead, ejecting everyone else.
We’ll launch this feature to additional Google Workspace editions in the coming months.
End users
In some cases, a host may not want people to continue a meeting without them present. For example, teachers may want to prevent students from having unsupervised meetings.
When a host is done with a meeting and wants to leave, they now have two options:
We recommend that, after ending a meeting, if a host wants to meet with a new group of people, that they create a new meeting. This can help prevent previous participants from joining.
We’re adding two new options in Calendar, which will help you better communicate your work availability to your colleagues. Specifically, you can:
At the moment, working hour segments will only be available on the web and repeating out-of-office entries on the web and Android devices. See below for more information on these features, including rollout details.
End users
As many people have experienced changes to their working environments in the past year, their work schedules have also changed—and are now often mixed with personal commitments and other obligations. We hope that with the addition of repeating out-of-office entries and segmentable working hours, you can better organize your time and communicate availability to your colleagues.
You can use segmentable working hours to indicate when certain blocks of time are outside of your working hours. Working hours are visible on your calendar when someone schedules a meeting with you.
In addition to using repeating out-of-office entries for vacation time, you can use them to indicate time when you need to handle personal commitments—like childcare, exercise, and more. They can also be used to better communicate part-time availability or certain days when you’re consistently unavailable.
Repeating out of office entries and declining meeting behavior
If you create a repeating out-of-office entry and select “Automatically decline meetings,” a decline meeting notification will be sent to the organizers of any meetings scheduled during your repeating out-of-office entry. If the declined meeting is a recurring meeting, those organizers may get multiple notifications—these emails are bundled for Gmail users, but not always for users of other email services.
Admins: No action required.
End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about splitting your working hours or creating repeating out of office entries in Google Calendar.
Segment your working hours in Google Calendar
Creating repeating out of office entries in Google Calendar
Working hour segments
Repeating out of office entries
