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Perhaps a controversial perspective, but if you aren't working in the same timezone, and can't synchronously communicate with your colleagues, can you provide a

Perhaps a controversial perspective, but if you aren't working in the same timezone, and can't synchronously communicate with your colleagues, can you provide as much value with respect to your California-based peers? Sure, you can watch Zoom recordings, but when folks have to connect, it'll be a 24-hour turn around to get questions answered, and those lags could materially impact business outcomes.

dv_dt 5y ago
The flip side is if problems exceed their original time zone, then employees outside the time zone can continue to work the problem and a business might get a solution sooner than they would have
harrisonjackson 5y ago
Most remote teams are well setup for async communication. If you have employees across a bunch of timezones it is a must.
mitchdoogle 5y ago
Why wouldn't they be able to work at the same time? People adjust their schedules for work when necessary. I work the standard 9-5 nowadays, but several years ago I worked at a warehouse from 6pm - 4am. I slept from 5am to 1pm as a result. Sure, there are outside pressures, like family obligations, but the job usually trumps all schedule conflicts in my experience
belatw 5y ago
In my current situation I have the added benefit of being in a close time zone to our team which was in Belarus (who now are in Ukraine and Netherlands). I manage an 8-person devops team and act as liason to our backend and frontend dev teams, as wrll as manage the customer relationship. Before this job I was an individual contributor getting 3-5 hours of overlap at a company distributed all over the USA. This afforded me more than enough overlap, extra on-call coverage hours and a solid 4 hours of uninterrupted project time. It is actually a huhe benefit that I get that much uninterrupted project time. Again, if a company sees value in my skillset and multiple decades of experience then they will have to pay me the salary I want. If not, another one will. It has been at least a decade sincr I have spent more than 2 weeks per year in-office or worked in a team that wasn’t distributed over 4-10 time zones.

dv_dt 5y ago

The flip side is if problems exceed their original time zone, then employees outside the time zone can continue to work the problem and a business might get a solution sooner than they would have

harrisonjackson 5y ago

Most remote teams are well setup for async communication. If you have employees across a bunch of timezones it is a must.

mitchdoogle 5y ago

Why wouldn't they be able to work at the same time? People adjust their schedules for work when necessary. I work the standard 9-5 nowadays, but several years ago I worked at a warehouse from 6pm - 4am. I slept from 5am to 1pm as a result. Sure, there are outside pressures, like family obligations, but the job usually trumps all schedule conflicts in my experience

belatw 5y ago

In my current situation I have the added benefit of being in a close time zone to our team which was in Belarus (who now are in Ukraine and Netherlands). I manage an 8-person devops team and act as liason to our backend and frontend dev teams, as wrll as manage the customer relationship. Before this job I was an individual contributor getting 3-5 hours of overlap at a company distributed all over the USA. This afforded me more than enough overlap, extra on-call coverage hours and a solid 4 hours of uninterrupted project time. It is actually a huhe benefit that I get that much uninterrupted project time. Again, if a company sees value in my skillset and multiple decades of experience then they will have to pay me the salary I want. If not, another one will. It has been at least a decade sincr I have spent more than 2 weeks per year in-office or worked in a team that wasn’t distributed over 4-10 time zones.