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Thanks! Your experience there is very encouraging. Lots of moving parts, but when I was thinking about this, I arrived at a similar conclusion to what you reco

by gedc 9y ago

Thanks! Your experience there is very encouraging. Lots of moving parts, but when I was thinking about this, I arrived at a similar conclusion to what you recommend - have the conversation with my current employer, and also to timebox it. The latter part works because I'm nearly certain my wife doesn't want to be gone for more than a year or two. We'll see on the former. School's already started for the year, so I'm thinking I can have this conversation with plenty of lead time and do the relocation next summer. Could I ask the time difference that you were working with, and if it was a particular challenge? I'd be 6 hours ahead of eastern time and I'm not sure yet whether I would want to commit to working EST from abroad - it's certainly doable, but I'm not sure that I want to work until 10-11pm each night.

ccleary00 9y ago
I'm one hour behind my team so it's pretty easy. We do have some offshore contractors who work from India which is about 10 hours difference I think. We only have about 2-3 hours overlap with them in the morning, but I find that more than adequate for communication between us. Working that late doesn't sound enjoyable - you could try proposing 'core hours' that would overlap with EST so you wouldn't have to work that late. Something like 4 hours overlap is what I usually see remote companies requiring. Best of luck and let me know how it goes, hope it works out for you. Working remotely is great.