# How to say no to meetings without feeling guilty

DevFeed: [How to say no to meetings without feeling guilty](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-say-no-to-meetings-without-feeling-guilty-9156.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://slack.design/articles/say-no-to-meetings-guilt-free/>)

Author: lisa

Published: 2021-10-14T20:25:53Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Slack Design](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/slack-design.md>)

Topics: [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>)

Tags: [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [how-we-work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-we-work.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>)

## AI overview

A practical guide to declining meetings without guilt. It presents ways to offer asynchronous alternatives, explain scheduling or focus needs, and reconsider default meeting practices while remaining helpful to teammates.

## Source excerpt

Being immersed in Slack's highly collaborative culture and an even closer-knit team, saying no to meetings used to be slightly terrifying. But when I realized my calendar wasn't always working for me, I had to make some adjustments to my thinking and my RSVPs. Whatever's at the heart of your own "meeting decline guilt"--the patriarchy, [...] The post How to say no to meetings without feeling guilty appeared first on Slack Design.