The schedule assistant on the schedule board receives a new feature that enables time zone agnostic scheduling. It’s designed to eliminate the complexities of time zone conversions, and it simplifies the process of scheduling resources across time zones.
Address cross-time zone challenges
Scheduling resources in a globally distributed team presents unique challenges. A team with members in different regions may find it difficult to align schedules because their working hours appear differently on a schedule board that is locked to a single time zone.
By normalizing working hours to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), this feature ensures that scheduling is both accurate and effortless, enabling smoother operations for teams spread across the globe. The unified format makes it easier to focus on availability without the distraction of manual conversions.
Book requirements across time
Let’s check out an example. A project manager at a consulting firm manages a team of consultants which work remotely from various locations. All consultants work from 9am-5pm in their local times. Mark works in Singapore, Patrick in New York, and Sarah is based in Seattle. By default, their resource availabilities show haphazardly on the schedule board, which is set to UTC. This makes scheduling tricky.
The new time zone agnostic schedule assistant feature solves this problem. After enabling the feature, the project manager can launch the schedule assistant and see all resource availabilities normalized to UTC.
In other words, it visualizes all consultants to be working from 9am-5pm regardless of their time zones. The project manager can now book the requirement in the consultants’ local time. Schedule assistant automatically converts the booking to the resources’ time zone, which is Eastern Time for Patrick.
Get started today
Ask your administrator to turn on the time zone agnostic scheduling assistant feature and experience the difference it makes in your scheduling workflows. For more information, see [DOCS]
We’re eager to hear your feedback. Let us know what you think about seamless scheduling across time zones in the Community Forum and submit feature suggestions in the Ideas page.
