Booking Time with Co-Workers with Microsoft’s FindTime
How much time have you wasted trying to schedule a meeting with colleagues across an organization? It is a cumbersome process having to deal with everyone’s busy schedules and wastes so much time trying to figure out how to make meeting times work for everyone. Instead of wasting time booking meetings, jumping between calendars, emails, and phone calls trying to schedule a meeting time that works, you can remove the pain of booking time with co-workers using Microsoft FindTime instead.
What is FindTime?
FindTime is an Office 365 add-in from Microsoft that allows you to quickly find time to meet with others – something that can take weeks without FindTime! It takes the work out of trying to schedule meetings with a number of people, either inside or outside your organization. Depending on the setting for the invite, you can allow recipients to propose different times, tentatively reserve all times in the calendar until all attendees vote on the best time for all, and even have FindTime automatically book the meeting once consensus is reached. This saves you time from having to contact people back and forth in order to find a time that works for all. Recipients can receive invites on any email provider and can access the FindTime voting website on any device. Organizers’ email accounts must be on Microsoft 365 and can access the FindTime Outlook add-in in Outlook 2013, Outlook 2016, or Outlook Web Access (OWA).
Voting Makes FindTime Work
Microsoft FindTime shows what days and times work best for you and your attendees by using free and busy data. Once you propose a few selected times, attendees get to vote on which times suit them best reaching a general consensus. FindTime can also allow you to schedule a meeting with multiple people across numerous companies across three timezones in 3.5 hours with a single email.
Voting Saves Time
FindTime allows people to book their preferred time so you quickly find times that suit all your attendees. You simply send your attendees an email with suggested dates and times they can vote on. Your attendees will receive a visual summary of voting to date, helping them choose the date and time that suits them best. Once your request reaches a consensus, FindTime automatically sends out the meeting invite on your behalf saving you time.
Safe and Secure
You don’t need to worry about potential data breaches because, for added security, FindTime encrypts personal information such as your email address in Microsoft Azure. FindTime also encrypts information about the invites you create, such as the email subject, the attendees, and the email body so it’s safe and secure.
Simple And Easy To Use
Not all your recipients of the FindTime email request will be using Microsoft 365, however, this doesn’t matter as their email address is all you need. Whether you need to schedule a meeting with colleagues or clients, you only need their email address. If your clients and colleagues haven’t downloaded the app – FindTime – still finds time, they only need the internet and an email address for it to work.
To use FindTime with your Microsoft 365 account, go to https://findtime.microsoft.com and click the Install button and follow the prompt to add the add-in to your outlook for Windows client. It will automatically display in Outlook on the Web. Call us on 02-8212-4722 to find out more about FindTime today, so that you can spend more time actually meeting rather than trying to find time to meet. Sydney Technology Solutions specializes in providing exceptional information technology support through our Managed IT Services programs right across Australia. Partnering with us means working with an IT company with a deep understanding of cloud computing, through our strategic partnership with Microsoft and their Office 365 solutions.
