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Meetings outside the working hours?! Where is this common? Here we work 9-6, but even in the places I've worked on where unpaid overtime was common (otherwise
by icebraining 7y ago
Meetings outside the working hours?! Where is this common?
Here we work 9-6, but even in the places I've worked on where unpaid overtime was common (otherwise you wouldn't keep up with the workload), no manager would have the gall to schedule regular meetings outside working hours.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> Meetings outside the working hours?! Where is this common? If you have people in, for example, London and San Francisco, how can you possibly have a meeting inside both people's 9-5 working hours?
- icebraining 7y ago> how can you possibly have a meeting inside both people's 9-5 working hours? Don't have 9-5 working hours? Having a meeting at 8 is okay, but that should mean people get to leave earlier as well.
- chrisseaton 7y agoYou can always have meetings inside working hours if you’re prepared to expand working hours either side as much as needed like that! In the modern international economy you’re going to have to be a bit flexible with hours.
- icebraining 7y agoMoving the hours around (from 9-5 to 8-4 or 10-6) is not expanding them, and it's already being flexible.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI don't get it then - you asked when do people have meetings outside normal working hours as if it was some sort of travesty that nobody would 'have the gall' to do, and now you're saying it's absolutely fine you just move your hours around...
- icebraining 7y agoPeterStuer, to whose post I originally replied, said those meetings were held outside working hours, so people effectively had "10 hour workdays". I don't see why is it hard to understand the difference between having a 10 hour workday or having a shifted 8 hour workday.
- decebalus1 7y ago> Meetings outside the working hours?! Where is this common? In all FAANG companies I worked at when I had geographically distributed teams.