#Office365 – Plan your Time Away and Focus Time. This is super important, and easy thanks to My Analytics

Hi !

Thanks for the great feedback on this topic. Today, I’ll share a typical Monday Routine for me

Plan my weekly Focus Time and Time Away.

I used to do this manually, now thanks to My Analytics this is just 2 clicks. And, also fairly accurate. You can do this in the My Analytics site, I’m an Outlook person so, in the main Insight panel I access to this 2 options

• Plan your time away
• Focus Time every day

In example, Focus Time will show the following screen. Here we can automatically schedule 1-2 hours per day to focus. Just click [Book time now] and it will find empty spots in your calendar for this.

This is super awesome, and also super good for our well-being.

Microsoft Research and the importance of breaks and focus time

If someone ask you “Why do you have this Focus time?”, and they expect a more formal answer, this may help. Microsoft Research. They shared a set of articles about the importance of work breaks and “workplace detachment and reattachment” as part of the Microsoft Research group. This information is available here.

Happy and productive at work: Predicting opportune moments to switch tasks and take breaks