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I don't want to diss your way of managing remote teams, but the "in my timezone" part is incredibly absurd, except if your remote teams are very close. If you h
by 4c2383f5c88e911 9y ago
I don't want to diss your way of managing remote teams, but the "in my timezone" part is incredibly absurd, except if your remote teams are very close. If you have a 5-hour offset, asking for someone to be available from 4am, or until 10pm sounds quite abusive. Now of course there should be a large enough common time window for several work interactions, but asking people in different timezones to have the exact same availability as you is wrong.
- bshimmin 9y agoThe biggest timezone gap we have is 3.5 hours, and they find it supremely convenient because they do other work in their morning. My company is based in the UK and we can only really work with people who can work in a moderately convenient timezone, at least on this sort of basis. If I hired a developer in San Francisco, I'd work with them in a different way, obviously. Nobody is being abused, don't worry!
- 4c2383f5c88e911 9y agoSo you fall in the "close enough" category (UK being especially convenient since there’s nothing close on the western side), good to know! I was mostly thinking of the US in my post.