How to share your work schedule with your family, without the meeting details

Option 1: Share free/busy from your work account

In Google Calendar at work, open your calendar's settings, share it with your partner's Google address and choose See only free/busy (hide details). Many Google Workspace companies allow free/busy sharing outside the company, though administrators can turn it off.

• Good: free, no app, no meeting details.
• But: your family needs a Google account and has to open your calendar in Google Calendar. Everything that marks you busy shows up, including focus time and holds. And if your administrator blocks outside sharing, this option isn't available.

Option 2: Copy meetings to a shared personal calendar

Create a calendar in your personal account (Google or iCloud), share it with your family, and add your meetings to it. That works in any calendar app your family uses, but doing it by hand means re-entering every meeting and every change.

Option 3: Reverse sync with SyncBusy (Pro)

Reverse sync copies your work meetings onto a personal calendar for you:

• Where they go: a separate "SyncBusy" calendar on Google Calendar, or an iCloud calendar you pick (not one you sync from). Share that calendar with your family the usual way, through Google Calendar sharing or iCloud calendar sharing.
• Which meetings: only ones you've accepted. Tentative, declined and unanswered invitations are left off. Two options add events with no other guests (focus time, holds, out of office) and events marked Free.
• What family sees: the time, and a title that follows your naming setting: "Busy (via SyncBusy)", "Busy", or the meeting's title. The description, guest list, location and video links are never copied.
• Changes follow: moved and cancelled meetings update on the family calendar.

Reverse sync is part of Pro: $4 a month, $36 a year, or $50 once for Lifetime, with a 30-day refund. It works alongside the main sync, which puts your personal events on your work calendar as private busy blocks.