Practice uses free and busy signals on your calendar to intelligently adapt your schedule and keep your time flexible.
While time blocking is a really useful way to make sure you actually get the important stuff done, it can also be tricky if you're the kind of person who has a lot of inbound meetings. If your calendar is too full and unavailable, you might find yourself spending a lot of time negotiating with your colleagues for available times.
Understanding free and busy events in Google Calendar
In Google Calendar, events can be designated as either free or busy. By default, the vast majority of events you create in Google Calendar (with the exception of all-day events) are created as busy by default.
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Free events are shown as available times to others when they book time with you. They are visible to you when viewing your calendar, but not to others.
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Busy events are shown as unavailable times to others when they book time with you. They are visible to you and to others as blocked.
When creating an event in Google Calendar, you can see (and set) whether an event is free or busy:
