Google Calendar working location: set, hide, remove, and why it is not showing

Working location vs Busy/Free

Set your working location Help says you can set a working location so collaborators know where you are and can easily find time to meet. Calendar automatically detects the relevant time zone and suggests meeting times that match where you work.

That is a different control from Busy or Free on a regular event, and from Default, Public, or Private. A working location does not occupy the day the way a Busy meeting does. It also does not hide event titles. See only free/busy (hide details) still lets viewers see working location names. Showing busy time on another account without sharing details is in the show busy time guide.

Eligible Google Workspace editions listed in Help: Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, and Nonprofits. If you do not get an option to set a working location, your administrator may not have the feature enabled. Some features, such as specific addresses and automatic time zone updates, may be unavailable because of your organization's data compliance and location restrictions.

Working hours are a weekly availability pattern. Help says you must turn on working hours before you set a default working location. Hours do not create Busy events. Out of office auto-declines meetings. Tentative is an RSVP Maybe, not a location. Those are in the working hours guide and the tentative guide.

Google Calendar Help steps checked Nov 5, 2026. Cited from Set your working location, Set your working hours & location, Check your availability across calendars, and Calendar sharing permissions.

How to set, add, or change it

Important: to set a working location, turn on working hours from a computer first.

Set a weekly default on a computer

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. At the top right, click Settings, then Settings.
3. On the left, under General, click Working hours & location.
4. Select the days you work.
5. Next to each day, enter an existing working location or create a new one.

Tip: to change your working location, go to a specific day and click the location chip. You can apply the change to that day or set it to repeat weekly.

Add a location from Create

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. At the top right, click Create, then Working location.
3. Optional: adjust the dates that you want to add a working location to.
4. Select Home or Office.
5. Optional: click Other locations to search for a specific building, city, or street address.
6. Click Save.

You can also create an all-day event and select Working location, or point below a date and click the Add location bar.

Add a location for part of a day

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. Click an empty space on your calendar.
3. At the top of the event, click Working location.
4. Choose the time and date.
5. Optional: next to Does not repeat, choose how often it should repeat.
6. Choose a location or add a new one, then click Save.

After you create a working location for part of your day, you can drag it to another date or time.

Edit one day or a range

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. At the top of your calendar, click the location chip, for example Home.
3. At the top right, click Edit working location.
4. Optional: click each date to adjust the range. Select Home, Office, or Other locations.
5. Click Save, choose a frequency, then click OK.

Android

1. Open the Google Calendar app.
2. At the bottom right, tap Create, then Working location.
3. To adjust the date range, tap each date.
4. Select Home or Office. Optional: tap Add location to search for a building, city, or street address.
5. Tap Save.

To edit, tap the location, then Edit. For part of a day, turn off All-day, then choose the start and end time. You can touch and hold, then drag a part-day location to another time.

iPhone and iPad

1. Open the Google Calendar app.
2. At the bottom right, tap Create, then Working location.
3. To adjust the date range, tap each date.
4. Select Home or Office. Optional: tap Add location to search for a building, city, or street address.
5. Tap Save.

Edit and part-of-day steps match Android: tap the location, then Edit, or turn off All-day. After you save a part-day location, you can touch and hold, then drag it.

If you have Make changes and manage sharing access to a calendar, you can edit the default working location. An administrator may ask you to set a location. If so, a yellow banner appears at the top of your calendar.

Google Calendar Help steps checked Nov 5, 2026. Cited from Set your working location, the Android page, the iPhone and iPad page, and Set your working hours & location.

How to hide, remove, or turn it off

Google Calendar Help does not document a labeled Hide working location or Turn off working location switch on the user Settings page. It documents deleting the location you already set, changing the weekly default, and an administrator control that turns the feature off for the organization.

Delete or remove a location

1. On your computer, open Google Calendar.
2. At the top of your calendar, click the location chip.
3. At the top right, click Delete working location.
4. Choose the date range you want to delete for the week or your entire schedule, then click OK.

On Android or iPhone: tap the location chip, tap More options, then Delete, choose the date range, and tap Delete.

Change or clear a weekly default

On a computer, open Settings, then Working hours & location. Next to each day, change the location or create a different one. Help documents selecting the days you work and entering a location next to each day. That is how you change the repeating default. It is not a Hide control.

Hide it from other people

There is no documented way to keep Home or Office for yourself while hiding those names from people who already have free or busy access. Admin Help says people with free or busy access see working location names on that calendar. If they should not see a location, do not share the calendar, or ask an admin to turn working location off. Sharing levels are in the access permissions guide. See only free/busy hides event details. It does not hide working location names.

Turn the feature off

An administrator can uncheck Allow users to set their daily working location in the Admin console under Apps, Google Workspace, Calendar, Sharing settings, Working location. That deletes already-existing locations. It can take up to 36 hours. If you have Business Standard, users can share working location, but that edition cannot turn the feature on or off.

If the Add location bar is still on the grid after you delete chips, the feature is still on for the account. Help does not document a user checkbox that hides that bar. Ask an admin to turn working location off, then wait up to 36 hours.

Google Calendar Help and Google Workspace Admin Help steps checked Nov 5, 2026. Cited from Set your working location, the Android page, the iPhone and iPad page, and Turn working location on or off for users.

Why it is not showing

Use this when the Home or Office chip is missing, coworkers cannot see it, or it never appears on a phone or another calendar. Missing regular events are in the events not showing guide.

• The account is personal Gmail, or the Workspace edition is not on the eligible list. Help lists Business, Enterprise, Education, and Nonprofit editions.
• An administrator turned working location off, or the feature is not enabled for your organization.
• Working hours are off. Help says you must turn them on before you set a default location. Hours can only be enabled from a computer. See the working hours guide and the Android hours page / iPhone hours page.
• Other people cannot access the calendar. Share it first. Calendar sharing Help and the access permissions guide cover who can see what.
• They are looking in the Directory profile. Admin Help says working location currently only appears on Calendar surfaces, not in Directory.
• They opened Apple Calendar, Outlook, or an iCal subscription. Help documents the location on Calendar surfaces. It does not document that chip in those other apps.
• The phone is signed into a different Google account, or the built-in iPhone Calendar is open instead of the Google Calendar app.
• Compliance or location restrictions hide addresses or automatic time zone updates, even when Home or Office still works.
• An admin just changed the setting. Removal can take up to 36 hours.
• You expected a Busy hold on another Google calendar. Resync skips working-location events when mirroring.

Google Calendar Help and Google Workspace Admin Help steps checked Nov 5, 2026. Cited from Set your working location, Set your working hours & location, and Turn working location on or off for users.

Working location vs hours vs Busy

These controls sit near each other in Settings and in Create. They do different jobs.

Google Calendar Help and Google Workspace Admin Help steps checked Nov 5, 2026. Cited from Set your working location, Set your working hours & location, Check your availability across calendars, and Turn working location on or off for users.

Working location troubleshooting

Use this table when you cannot set, hide, remove, or see a working location.

Google Calendar Help and Google Workspace Admin Help steps checked Nov 5, 2026.

How Resync treats working location

Use working location when coworkers should know you are at Home, Office, or another place. Use Busy or Out of office when the time should be blocked. Use Free when the event should stay visible without occupying the time. Resync does not change those settings. It does not sync Outlook, Apple Calendar, or iCloud.

Use Resync when another of your Google calendars should show private busy time for meetings, not for Home or Office. Resync skips working-location events when mirroring. It currently syncs Google calendars only. $1.50/month or $9/year after a 30-day free trial, no credit card required.

• Resync skips working-location events when mirroring. A Home, Office, or other working-location event does not get a hold. Resync does not set your location.
• Regular busy events still get a hold titled Busy. Description, location, attendees, and conference data are left empty, so source meeting details stay on the source calendar.
• Each hold occupies the time. Resync does not copy the source title, and it does not copy Home or Office onto the hold.
• If a source event moves, Resync updates the hold. If the event is cancelled, marked free, declined, or is a working-location event, Resync does not keep a hold.
• Out of office and Focus time on a source still get a hold if they occupy time. Working hours are not events and are not copied.
• Resync looks 90 days ahead when it reads source events. It watches source calendars with Google push notifications and updates holds when those events change. A polling fallback also runs about every 5 minutes. Read-only calendars cannot be mirrors. Resync currently syncs Google calendars only.
• If you delete or edit a hold, Resync records that and does not recreate it for the same source event on that mirror.
• If the source event is Private, the hold is Private. Otherwise the hold uses default visibility.

Set up Resync

1. Sign in with GoogleOpen Resync and sign in with the Google account you want as your primary account. You land on setup.
2. Connect another Google accountChoose Connect another Google account and finish Google's permission screen. Resync needs at least two Google accounts before you can start.
3. Start syncingWhen a second account is connected, setup shows bidirectional mirroring as the intended default: real events on either side become private busy blocks on the other. Choose Start syncing to open the dashboard.
4. Mark sources and mirrorsIn Sync configuration, turn on Source to read busy time from a calendar and Mirror to receive Busy holds. A calendar can be both. Read-only calendars cannot be mirrors because Resync needs write access to create holds. Working-location source events do not get a hold.

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