Deep Work Stats Product Information and Latest Updates (2025)

Icebreakers 3.0 COVID-19 edition

This is a really cool product for starting to kill off ineffective meetings. Do you give tactical suggestions on how to improve the KPIs? For that matter, do you give users a notion of what balance we should shoot for? Any sort of recommendations and seeing the metrics trend the right direction would be super-motivating.

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5yr ago

Ben Fox

Deep Work Stats

Maker

@lnchoi We've got a ton of tips on how you can increase deep work time and make meetings more effective, and we are hoping to follow-up with recommendations on the right balance. We try to classify everything as maker or manager to help there. Makers should have a LOT of big blocks of time so they have time to code or for marketing work or other tasks that need focus. Managers are going to have a lot more meetings due to the nature of their jobs but we would still like to see at least half their work days available for deep work. We hope to push an update down the road to show more of that and for now the comparisons can help show that too.

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5yr ago

Ellen Choi

Icebreakers 3.0 COVID-19 edition

@bwb cool makes sense. one future feature suggestion is to let the user set their own goal on this, and track on a weekly basis if you got closer or further. I think giving the user best practices recos based on their cohort is great, but everyone prob has a different goal...for ex maybe my primary job is managing a large team of customer support ops and I'm totally ok with 20% deep work time for the week. Then you are tying together the data with actionables and a concrete sense of progress (or lack of).

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5yr ago

Ben Fox

Deep Work Stats

Maker

@lnchoi Ah great point, we will see what we can do to give users the ability to set their goals down the road!

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5yr ago

Ken Savage

CookieJar

Nice product Ben. I’d like to know how many people attended my meetings and how long they lasted. Doable with Shepherd?

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5yr ago

Ben Fox

Deep Work Stats

Maker

@kensavage Yep! We show you a break down by attendee and length plus a lot more! Here is a sample report to check out what it includes: https://app.shepherd.com/persona...

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5yr ago

Craig Watson

Spotify

This is great! How do you define 'deep work' as I can imagine some meetings (eg personal blocks of time booked on the calendar) could show up as meetings vs available time for deep work?

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5yr ago

Ben Fox

Deep Work Stats

Maker

@cdcwatson Great q! We define Deep Work as anytime you have a block of 90 minutes of time without meeting interruptions. We only count meetings that have at least 1 other attendee so events with just you don't get counted.

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5yr ago

Craig Watson

Spotify

@bwb cool thanks for clarifying!

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5yr ago

Nina

@cdcwatson @bwb what if you use your calendar to block off times for uninterrupted, deep work - i.e. as a signal to peers that you are not available for meetings during that time?

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5yr ago

Ben Fox

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Maker

@cdcwatson @ninau Yep it would only count it as a meeting if there is at least one other person beyond yourself in the meeting who accepted the invite. So it would count as deep work as long as it is just you in that event :)

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5yr ago

Nina

@cdcwatson @bwb nice! does it also recognize when you book appointments in your cal (e.g. dentist appt)?

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5yr ago

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