Save time for lunch every day by letting Clockwise automatically sync a lunch hold to your calendar.  

In this article, you'll learn:

• How lunch holds work
• How to set up lunch holds
• How to Protect your lunch time
• How to make changes to Lunch Holds
• How to delete lunch events

How lunch holds work

When you enable lunch holds, Clockwise will automatically preserve time for your lunch when moving flexible meetings. It can also create a calendar event that corresponds to your lunch preferences.  

These dynamic calendar events are updated in real-time as your calendar changes, so you can always have an up-to-date view of the time you have available for lunch.

💡Note: Lunches will not change once the day they are scheduled arrives.

Set up & Configuration

Preserve Time for Lunch

1. In the top left corner of your Clockwise sidebar, click the Menu button (☰), then click on Settings
2. Choose the "Smart Holds" category.
3. Scroll down to "Lunch" and toggle on Preserve time for lunch when possible.
   
4. Configure your preferences for when you want to take lunch, and the minimum and maximum durations. If you're not able to choose your preferred end time, try first adjusting the start time to be earlier/later.

Schedule Lunch Events

If you want to schedule lunch events on your calendar, so they are visible to your coworkers, click on the toggle to enable:

Auto-Decline Meetings 

If there comes a time when you need your lunch time to be firm, you can defend this time so it will not change, and can automatically decline meetings scheduled with you during your lunch time.

1. Click on the lunch event you'd like to protect.
2. In your Clockwise sidebar, choose the option that works best for you, -or-
3. From within your Google calendar, press Decline incoming meetings. Clockwise will no longer move this lunch event.
   
   

Manually Update Lunch Holds

Clockwise gives you the flexibility to manually update your lunch holds. To do so, simply drag the lunch hold to your desired future time on your calendar or adjust the scheduled duration.

Clockwise will then confirm, when you click on the event, that you have successfully updated your lunch hold to your desired time.

💡Once the lunch hold is manually edited, Clockwise will no longer make dynamic updates to the event.

Remove Lunch Holds

1. Click on the desired event.
2. In your Clockwise sidebar, press Remove this hold
   
   

To learn more about protecting “you” time, check out our Clockwise Academy course here!