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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the new corner office. The podcast where we share

strategies for thriving in the new world of work, where location and hours are more flexible than

in the past. Today's tip is to change your meeting to fault time. A surprising number of people

automatically schedule meetings for 60 minutes. By changing this, at least to 30 minutes,

you force people to justify any link-theor requests. Ultimately, this can save a ton of time.

In a perfect world, I think all meetings would be scheduled for the exact amount of time dictated

by the agenda. If you've got 23 minutes of stuff to cover, then the meeting will be 23 minutes long.

Unfortunately, electronic calendars make this pretty difficult, and there are enough advantages

of electronic calendars that people tend to go along with their settings, which means that meetings

happen in intervals of 15 minutes, and almost universally in 30 or 60 minute chunks.

Now, it might seem that setting the default to 60 minutes is wise. After all, if stuff takes

less time, great. You now have open space in your schedule. Setting a 60 minute default will

naturally limit how many meetings can get scheduled per day and probably keep you from running behind

in a way that a schedule packed with 30 minute meetings just won't. But here's the problem.

People have a funny tendency to take the scheduled time as what they should aim for.

I have been in a great many meetings in life that could have taken five minutes,

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