How to find low Deep Work time

Learn how to analyze and improve your organization's deep work. 

Uplevel categorizes your team's work into two buckets:

Development time, which consists of Deep Work and fragments. Optimized development time consists of as little fragments as possible. 

Non-development time - The various types of meetings and interruptions in Slack that pull your developers away from their most important work. 

Development Time

Deep Work Trend

Understand your organization's Deep Work baseline by taking a look at your trends over time. This chart shows you the average time your developers have to focus over the selected time range, compared to the equal amount of time prior. 

This view makes it easy to spot dips which could correlate to an increased burnout risk.  

Clicking into Deep Work, you'll be able to see a breakdown of Deep Work compared to meetings, interruptions, and fragments.

An increase in fragments will correlate to a decrease in Deep Work.

Non-Development Time 

Under Deep Work, Uplevel also surfaces the overhead cost of non-development time (such as time spent in meetings and dealing with interruptions over Slack or Teams.) Private meeting events are always excluded from this calculation.  

Individual details where appropriate

Help your teams take action and make the needed improvements to meeting load and interruptions by focusing on where help is needed most.

If your organization has enabled drill-ins to see individual details, these are available where appropriate within your reporting structure.

• By default, individual level data is visible on those who report up to you.
• Data about those who don’t report up to you is hidden, and only the team rollup is shown.

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