Meetings are a core aspect of teamwork. The standard workweek contains several hours of meetings, so understanding their purpose and duration is key to optimizing your time.
Uplevel utilizes calendar data to classify your meetings into important categories—Training, Product Release, Working Sessions, Deep Work, Short Tasks, 1:1s, Social—based on the meeting title, the number of attendees, your response to the meeting invite, and more.
Meetings are defined as any public-facing calendar events that have more than one person attending. (We don’t count meetings or appointments you set for yourself.) If you have multiple meetings at the same time, we consider factors like acceptance status (prioritizing “accepted” over “tentative” RSVPs) or number of attendees to determine which you likely attended.
What if I'm double-booked?
Uplevel makes an educated guess about which meeting you attended. This is typically the meeting with more attendees. If a person has responded "Yes" to one meeting and "Tentative" to the other, we will count the former. Our algorithm also takes into account double-booked meetings of different durations. If the "Yes" meeting is 30 minutes and the "Tentative" meeting is 60 minutes, we will count the initial meeting, plus the second half of that next meeting.
What if I'm invited to a meeting but decline the invitation?
Declined meeting invitations are excluded from Uplevel insights.
What if I'm invited to a meeting, but respond "tentative"? What if I don't respond at all?
In most cases, Uplevel will count a "tentative" response as an attendance. In the case of office hours or a company social event, a tentative response will not be recorded as an attendance.
Are all two-person meetings classified as 1:1s?
No, we classify 1:1s as meetings solely between a manager and their direct report. Other two-person meetings may be classified as Working Sessions.
How can I re-classify meetings in Uplevel?
You can re-classify a meeting by selecting the drop-down in the meeting time chart. Users are able to mark misidentified instances as “not a meeting,” which will clear that data point and prevent future instances of that meeting series from appearing in that category.
What if I'm on vacation?
Any meeting that occurs during an out of office period (“OOO” or “out of office” on your calendar) is excluded.