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There are still significant challenges wrt workplace culture, meeting times, organizational setup (how work is actually synchronized between timezones/handed of
by MAGZine 7y ago
There are still significant challenges wrt workplace culture, meeting times, organizational setup (how work is actually synchronized between timezones/handed off), and, most importantly, language.
That said, a decade is a long time from now.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoLanguage can be learned; but working with an European/US West/Malaysian team was a nightmare, because there's no way to schedule anything in everyone's daytime, and the resulting latency has horrible knock-on effects. Everything else can be changed, but the rotation of the Earth is...sort of non-negotiable. (Mind you, we avoided actual teleconferences like the plague, but even sending an email was problematic: "yeah, this needs to go to A in Malaysia. God forbid that it then needs to go to B in USA, and then to C in Europe, because that's two whole days until you get a reply, minimum". Persuading people to work night shifts didn't quite work, either.)
- blaser-waffle 7y ago> Language can be learned Sure, but that doesn't mean they're communicating in the same way. You've got to learn (or unlearn) cultural aspects, too. Then throw in the timezone difference, and a clear level-of-effort difference aka "case of the fuck-its", and you get a workflow that is entirely different from the local office. We got around the time difference by offshoring in Latin America, who are on the same timezones.