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What Is Time Zone Prejudice, And How Does It Discriminate Against Remote Workers?

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In the last few years, new remote workers have flocked from expensive cities for wide open spaces and cheaper cost of living. While this doesn’t seem like a problem on the surface, the time zones in which these regions are located have caused turmoil for professionals. . Meetings were scheduled on and without regard to U.S.

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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

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Be cognizant of the time zones. Use a cultural calendar to avoid setting meetings on holidays. When we entered the virtual conference room it gave us the chance to eliminate distractions and meet in one virtual room, without the hassle and expense of traveling to a central location. .

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Pros and Cons of Virtual Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

Virtual assistants can give you a lot of freedom by taking on repetitive and administrative tasks and freeing up time to attend to other aspects of the business. If you plan to hire a virtual executive assistant, you must decide if you need someone in the same time zone as yourself. This is not necessarily the case.

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Mauro Repacci CEO of Boundless Life | Work, Travel, Kids: The Digital Nomad Experience for Families

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And in the time that you have to travel at basically the craziest time, spring break, winter holidays, summer holidays. Jo Meunier [00:04:07] Expensive! . Mauro Repacci [00:04:09] Extremely expensive. You’re talking about three or four or five times more crowded spaces. Also, the other issue is time zone.

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The Blended Role of Executive Personal Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

They schedule both business and personal appointments, maintain the calendar, and are responsible for a full range of administrative and personal duties—from managing correspondence and making appointments to booking speaking engagements and event planning. What Are the Responsibilities of an Executive/Personal Assistants?

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

You may want to have weekly or monthly one-on-one time with some of the key executives you support. Daily Calendars. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner.

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The ultimate app guide for assistants

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This app is slightly expensive but worth paying for if your manager travels a lot. The app also gives access to real-time departure information, delays and gate numbers. I use the website all the time, not just for planning travel but also for expenses, so it is helpful having the app on my phone. Meetup Time Lite: Free.