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How Hiring Virtual Assistants Can Boost Employee Performance and Work-Life Balance

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Business leaders have a new solution to alleviating employee burnout and helping them create more balance —hiring virtual assistants (VAs) to free up employees’ time and creative energy. For example, the VA is most often in a different time zone than my employee, and my employee is expected to work only during the day.

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Best Destinations for First-Time Digital Nomads

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When choosing a starting destination, there are many factors to consider including language, time zone, cost, and facilities. This article was originally published on andysto.com. Time zone: Time zone plays an important role in choosing a destination.

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The 3-Sentence Email Guaranteed to Get a Response

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a good time for me to call your office for a quick 8-minute chat?”. This sentence tells Clargley you respect her time, are willing to do the time-zone math, and all she needs to do is pick up the phone. This article was published in August 2017 and has been updated. Instead, write, “Is Monday at 2 or 3 p.m.

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10 Apps for Administrative Productivity and Organization

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This is the second article in a two-part series on productivity apps for admins by Julie Perrine. Chat by phone or video conferencing, record meetings, and share screens to keep each other up to date, even if you’re continents apart! I use the Time Zone Converter by TimeAndDate. Another cool one is World Time Buddy.

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Hybrid Work: It’s Not a Revolution, it’s a Revelation

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This article was written by Anna Grayhek , and was originally published on Work Design Magazine. They have become an accepted means of communication, including screen sharing and live editing, rather than marking up and emailing. Especially for organizations with a global footprint, working across multiple time zones.

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12 Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Digital Nomads

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Digital nomads travel the world, often packing lightly so that they can easily move on to a new city or country and set up a new base there. If you’re living and working in different countries, with changing time zones, collaborating with colleagues around the world can be difficult. Calendly subscription .

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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

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Usually after the oldest heads to the bus stop, the youngest will bobble downstairs, hair frazzling out in about 40 directions, rubbing sleep out of his eyes with balled-up fists and looking as if he’d ask me for coffee if he wasn’t 5. Here on the western edge of the Eastern time zone, darkness falls around 4:30 p.m.,

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