Pause and schedule automated workflows with the new “Wait until” step in Workspace Studio
Google Workspace Updates ·
To give teams greater control over the timing and pacing of their automated workflows, we are introducing a new “Wait until” step in Google Workspace Studio flows. With this new flow control step, users can pause a flow at any point in its execution—including inside conditional branches (Check if) and loops (Repeat for each)—and automatically resume it at a specified future date and time or after a set duration (up to 14 days).
Previously, multi-stage workflows that required time delays—such as sending a follow-up email a few days after a customer meeting, spacing out onboarding reminders, or waiting until Monday morning to post a team digest in Google Chat—had to be split across separate scheduled flows. The Wait until step lets you build and manage these end-to-end sequences within a single flow without writing code.
When adding a Wait until step to a flow, you can configure how long the flow should pause with several modes:
While a flow is paused, you can monitor its real-time progress in the Workspace Studio Activity tab, which logs the scheduled resume timestamp and time zone (for example, “Waiting until {datetime}” and “Flow resumed on {datetime}”).