Meeting Classifications

Meeting Classifications

How are meetings classified?

Uplevel's Meeting Classifier takes into account high-level details surrounding number of participants, meeting titles, and the duration of meetings to provide insights around which kinds of meetings take the most of your time.


Classifications

Non-Meetings: Blocked for Work

Blocked for work meetings are scheduled blocks of time on your calendar used to categorize uninterrupted, heads down time. Blocks for work are captured as Deep Work if they are two or more hours long, or are part of a longer block of non-meeting time. Pair programming meetings are also counted as “blocked for work” for all attendees.

1:1s

A meeting between an individual and a coworker that isn't classified as another meeting type.

Office Hours

Office Hours are meetings that contain multiple participants and key phrases in the meeting title, such as “Office Hours” or “brown bag”. By declining or marking Office Hours as tentative on your calendar, Uplevel does not assume you’ve attended the meeting and, thus, does not factor in these meetings to affect your levels of Deep Work or Always On.

Out-of-Office

Out of office events are any that utilize a variety of key phrases in the meeting title, such as "OOO", "Leave", "School Dropoff," "Appointment," and more. This is used to capture brief absences such as being unavailable for an hour for an appointment, and also longer vacations that are marked on the calendar. It also automatically treats that US business holidays are Out-of-Office since these are often not explicitly marked on the calendar.

These meeting types would not be counted towards Deep Work or Always On.

Product Release Reviews

Examples of Product Release Reviews would be launch meetings, roadmap planning meetings and more. Uplevel considers the meeting title and number of participants to categorize meetings into this meeting type.

Recruiting

Recruiting meetings are interviews or other recruiting events, as defined by the number of participants and key phrases in the meeting title, such as "interview", "candidate", "phone screen", and more.

Scrum

This meeting type includes any team scrum events, such as standup meetings or sprint retros.

Social/Company Events

Uplevel captures social/company events by factoring in multiple participants and key phrases in the meeting title, like “happy hour”, “social party”, and more.

Training Sessions

Meetings that involve multiple participants and include key phrases like “training”, “course”, “bootcamp”, and more in the meeting title are considered training sessions.

Working Sessions

Working sessions are meetings that involve multiple participants and include “working session”, "debugging", and more in the meeting title.

Other Meeting Events

Other Meeting Events are any meetings that do not fit the categorized in any of the other meeting categories. Examples of other meeting events would be meetings with “Zoom meeting” or specific team jargon in the meeting title.

Frequently Asked Questions

What if I'm double-booked?

Uplevel makes an educated guess about which meeting was attended. This is typically the meeting with more attendees. If a person has responded "Yes" to one meeting and "Tentative" to the other, we will count the former. Our algorithm also takes into account double-booked meetings of different durations. If the "Yes" meeting is 30 minutes and the "Tentative" meeting is 60 minutes, we will count the initial meeting, plus the second half of that next meeting.

What if I'm invited to a meeting but declined the invitation?

Declined meeting invitations are excluded from Uplevel insights.

What if I'm invited to a meeting, but respond "tentative"? What if I don't respond at all?

In most cases, Uplevel will count a "tentative" response as an attendance. In the case of office hours or a company social event, a tentative response will not be recorded as an attendance.

What if I'm on vacation?

Any meeting that occurs during an out of office period (“OOO” or “out of office” on a calendar) is excluded.

What if someone includes me as an “invitee” on their vacation event, as a reminder?
If there are multiple people listed as attendees for a vacation event, we assume the organizer is OOO, and treat it as a non-meeting for everyone else.

 

See how your meetings are being classified

If you would like to see the details of exactly how your meetings are being classified, please contact support@uplevelteam.com.

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