"Feel free to suggest a time or you can drop something directly on my calendar," I wrote, and included a direct scheduling link for a 30-minute meeting.
The response: "Please click the link at the bottom of this message to provide several 30 minute time blocks for the next week or so."
Ugh. Instead of having a delightful scheduling experience, I am now manually blocking several multi-hour chunks for the following week. And because the request was sent Friday and I didn't get back to it until the end of the day, I will have to roll into Monday with blocks on my calendar.
I had been so delighted in the past few years by the ability to open up our family dinner calendar to other families with a direct scheduling link in Calendly that I even created a Calendly for my dog -- he uses a QR code to create playdates when he's out in the neighborhood meeting new friends and he's had so much more scheduling than I have that he gets invited to Calendly insider events.
It's been a game-changer for our social life. Not only do we avoid the endless back and forth trying to find a date that works, we can offer multiple invitations simultaneously without worrying whether we hear back right away since we're not blocking multiple dates for each invite and we're not constrained on how long it takes for someone to get back to us. It's liberating.
I had no idea until last week that some people aren't fond of direct scheduling links like Calendly and that there is a recommended etiquette so as to avoid the perception of a power dynamic.
What do you think? Do you feel uncomfortable when someone offers you a scheduling link? Would you ever use something like Calendly for your personal life?
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