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> In principle, I agree, but I should point out that "No meetings outside regular daylight hours" and "My employer shouldn't care where in the world I do my job
by raydev 5y ago
> In principle, I agree, but I should point out that "No meetings outside regular daylight hours" and "My employer shouldn't care where in the world I do my job" are not compatible with each other.
Not if you're all in North America. I've worked for two large, distributed companies in the last several years, where I reside in Eastern time zone. There's enough overlap between me and teammates in the Pacific time zone that evening meetings are never necessary.
- viraptor 5y agoYeah, I don't get that one. You need to be in some really extreme timezones to not have any overlap. I worked with both UK and US from Australia (not Apple) and it was possible. Occasionally I'd do a meeting at night and start later the next day, but it was always my choice.
- microtherion 5y agoAs I said, our team is literally spread evenly around the globe (though not nearly in equal numbers). Every hour of the day is bound to be awkward for someone.
- viraptor 5y agoIn those cases we split the meeting and someone sent in the notes async. At the level where all those people absolutely must be present... I would hope they're paid enough and have enough agency in their roles to figure out the solution.
- indemnity 5y agoTry UTC+12/13 and having to regularly coordinate with Europe :) Working with the US and Asia is fine though, always have a couple of hours of overlap.
- franga2000 5y agoI used to work with people from PST (-8), CET (+1) and KST (+9). The meeting planner [0] shows no "acceptable" overlap, but we made it work by doing meetings very rarely, planning them far in advance and essentially taking turns which timezone gets the late (22-23) or early (6-7) slots. This was despite the fact that there was a clear hierarchy - sometimes the boss got up at 4 or stayed up until 23 so we wouldn't have to. [0] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20220310&p1=48&p2=256&p3=235 https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=...
- sokoloff 5y agoIndia is 10.5 hours from both coasts of the US (for most of the year). If two employees work at the same local times, they have to work an 11 hour day to have 30 minutes of overlap.