Outlook: How to add your work hours and location to your calendar

Outlook: How to add your work hours and location to your calendar

You can set the working hours and location for your Outlook calendar by following this link:

For a while now, Outlook has had the ability for you to add your working hours to your calendar. That way, people see your working hours as they try to schedule you for meetings. Recently however, Microsoft introduced the ability to add your Work Location to your calendar.

You can now set your working location during specific times, and it will show when people try to schedule meetings with you. It will also show up on your Teams status! This helps people make informed scheduling decisions based on where you'll be.

Here’s an example of this in action:


In this example, I’d spend the first half of my day in the office, take a lunch, and finish the second half of my day elsewhere. If you have a more complicated schedule, you can add up to three separate time sections for each day of the week.

Here's another example of what this functionality looks like when people are looking at your status in Teams:


Please let us know if you have any questions about this functionality!

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