John JonasOwner, OnlineJobs.ph · Scale Your Business with Filipino VAs

Why VAs Aren’t Available 24/7

6 Nov 2025 · 0 min

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Virtual assistants are human workers who need sleep, exercise, family time, and meals. The speaker advocates for eight-hour shifts instead of 24/7 availability, arguing that respecting these boundaries makes outsourcing more ethical and actually benefits the people hiring them.

I'll get people asking me, are these people available 24 7. My answer is no, they're not available 24, 7. They're people and they need to balance their lives and their work. And so are they available 24, 7? No. They should work their eight hour shift and then they should go and exercise and spend time with their family and eat and sleep. And the better you can help them provide work, life balance, the more ethical your outsourcing will be.