In recent past, the work has become in such a way that, there are tons of emails in your mail box, meeting invites and IMs (instant messages) every day. From my recent experience, i keep getting at least 75-100 emails out of which i have to reply to about 10 emails at least. if you calculate on an average of 2 minutes to read and 4 minutes to reply each mail, it takes about 3-4 hrs. Then you have meetings which altogether eat up anywhere from 30 minutes to 2-3 hours. And then comes chat messages. Altogether you loose half of your work day for emails and meetings itself. Unless your job is to read emails and attend meetings then where the hell is the time to do some work? This may not happen everyday, and it may not be for everyone but i am sure quality time is getting disturbed with all these.
To be not disturbed by email/chat/phone notifications, i propose a workplace calendar which looks like below.
| Monday | No team lunches |  |
| Tuesday | No instant Messengers(messages) |  |
| Wednesday | No email |  |
| Thursday | No phone calls |  |
| Friday | No meetings |  |
