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A phenomenon where employees experience significant fatigue and productivity decline after attending meetings, particularly unproductive or back-to-back ones. Research shows that affected individuals need at least 45 minutes to recover before resuming productive work, with 90% of workers reporting experiencing a 'meeting hangover'.

A calendar management technique that deliberately schedules empty time slots between meetings and tasks to absorb overruns, handle transitions, prevent back-to-back exhaustion, and create space for unexpected work.

Popular scheduling automation tool that eliminates back-and-forth emails by allowing others to book time directly from your available slots, with payment collection, team scheduling, and integration capabilities.

Calendar practice of defaulting meetings to 25 or 50 minutes instead of 30 or 60 minutes, providing buffer time between meetings and reducing back-to-back scheduling fatigue. This 2026 standard is increasingly built into calendar tools as default setting.

Science-backed time management strategy that involves allocating fixed, predetermined amounts of time to tasks and sticking to those limits, ranked as the most useful productivity hack in surveys.

Concept by Paul Graham distinguishing between two types of schedules: makers who need long uninterrupted blocks for creative work, and managers who operate in hour-long appointment blocks throughout the day.