Google is including an choice to its Calendar service to allow you to present the place you’re engaged on any given day of the week, the company has announced. The function will begin rolling out from August thirtieth for customers on choose Google Workspace plans, and can be accessible through Calendar’s settings menu alongside its current working hours choices, in addition to on the weekly calendar view beneath the place it exhibits every day’s dates. Available work areas embrace “Office,” “Home,” “Unspecified,” or “Somewhere else.”

According to Google, the choice is being added so it’s “easier to plan in-person collaboration or set expectations in a hybrid workplace.” It follows a surge within the recognition of house and hybrid working as a result of pandemic. This has meant workers more and more need to maintain monitor not simply of individuals’s working hours, but additionally their location, when planning in-person conferences and different occasions. Google Calendar’s new function ought to assist right here.

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Google says the brand new working areas function can be switched off by default, however customers can have the choice of enabling it after it begins to roll out on the finish of the month. The function can be out there throughout the next tiers: Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, Nonprofits, and G Suite Business. However it gained’t be out there for G Suite Basic prospects, in addition to prospects on the Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Education Fundamentals plans.