I&#x27;m in a position where I spend half my time working on &quot;manager&#x27;s schedule&quot;.  After a relatively short time of doing so, I adopted the trick of scheduling an all-day meeting for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  Then, when people want to schedule a meeting (regular or recurring), and it isn&#x27;t incredibly urgent, they&#x27;ll generally default to Monday or Tuesday, days where I primarily handle meetings, email, and short activities.  This works well with automated tools that find the next available timeslot that everyone has marked as &quot;free&quot;.  Occasionally, someone will ask if I can accommodate something urgent on Wed-Fri, to which the answer is usually &quot;yes&quot;, but despite that, I tend to have 7-8 hours of uninterrupted time on those days.