Product design question

What should you build to improve productivity when working from home?

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What this question tests

Product sense identifying a real, specific pain point in the shift to remote and hybrid work.

Define the user: a remote knowledge worker struggling with focus, meeting fatigue, or blurred work-life boundaries.
Identify a specific pain point: excessive meetings fragment deep work time, since remote work often defaults to more scheduled syncs.
Prioritize a focus-protection tool over a generic productivity dashboard, since meeting overload is a widely reported, high-impact problem.
Design a feature: an AI-assisted calendar tool that clusters meetings, protects blocks of deep-work time, and suggests async alternatives for low-value meetings.
Define success metrics: hours of protected deep-work time per week and reduction in meeting count per user.

Names meeting overload specifically, grounded in widely reported remote-work research, rather than a vague 'productivity tool.'
Proposes a concrete mechanism, AI-suggested async alternatives, that directly reduces the identified pain point.
Gives an illustrative metric, e.g. increasing protected focus time from 5 to 10 hours a week, marked as an assumption.
Considers organizational buy-in as a real constraint, since calendar norms are set by teams, not individuals alone.

Proposing a broad, unfocused 'productivity suite' instead of solving one specific problem well.
Ignoring that changing meeting culture requires organizational, not just individual, adoption.

How would you get organizational buy-in, not just individual adoption?
How would you measure if this actually improved output, not just fewer meetings?