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 the kinds of meetings take the most of your time.
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.
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.
Out-of-Office
Out of office events are any that utilize a variety of key phrases in the meeting title, such as "OOO", "Leave", and more. 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.
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.