Define: "Calendar Tetris" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Block out a recurring two-hour meeting with yourself called 'Focused Engineering Time'."
The difficult process of scheduling a meeting among multiple participants with heavily booked schedules.
What does "Calendar Tetris" actually mean?
"The dark art of frantically shuffling four overlapping Teams invites just to find a continuous 15-minute block of time to actually write a script."
"Apologies for the calendar tetris, but this is the only time the VP is available."
"I spent half my morning playing calendar tetris just to get the security and networking teams on a single troubleshooting call."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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