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I don't know why people think that remote work means that you can hire from anywhere in the world. You still need to be able to be able to schedule meetings to
by solidasparagus 6y ago
I don't know why people think that remote work means that you can hire from anywhere in the world. You still need to be able to be able to schedule meetings to have discussions/make decisions quickly and that really limits the spread of a single team to a couple timezones.
- ghaff 6y agoMore like 6 or so but I agree with your basic point. (US East to Central Europe works. More starts getting difficult.)
- solidasparagus 6y agoI've done US East to EU and it didn't work very well for us. You couldn't make decisions in a single day. You only overlap from 9am-noon US East time (assuming 9-5 working hours).
- ghaff 6y agoPerhaps the groups I work with have fewer ongoing synchronization needs. We have meetings in the morning ET and it works fine for us.
- luckylion 6y agoAnd you still need cultural proximity, which is a much larger issue than time zones imho. If you have a dev team from your cultural background that (fluently!) speaks your language, I don't believe it matters as much when they're eight hours away. On the other hand, having a team a bike ride away that you cannot effectively communicate with and that works completely different culturally is setting yourself up for trouble. Outsourcing is much easier for things that are very clear and don't require much communication. For development work, I've not seen much success with it, the cultural & communication barriers are too strong.