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If you manage one person you get all the overhead of managing people but only the productivity of one person. Same for offshoring. My company has people in Indi
by spaetzleesser 4y ago
If you manage one person you get all the overhead of managing people but only the productivity of one person. Same for offshoring. My company has people in India so we often get one or two persons added to the team. This produces enormous overhead due difficulty of communication over a 12h time difference but we still get omit the work of two people. It would be way more efficient to have ten people there so the overhead is worth it.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y ago>This produces enormous overhead due difficulty of communication over a 12h time difference I refuse to do it again / anymore. I've been asking for contractor's actual working hours before assuming a 9-5 time schedule in their timezone, then looking at actual working hours of overlap. But no matter what, I absolutely require 3-4 hours of overlap a day. I'm DONE with the one round-trip communication per day routine.
- pojzon 4y agoIm currently in such situation. Our team in central EU and second team in US. 8h difference. We learn about everything last and have nothing to say. One sync on manager level per day. Cant get anything done well. Already filled papers to quit.
- timq 4y agoOn the other hand in my current company we have people from all over the world: US, EU, Africa, Asia and Australia. Everything is asynchronous, flat hierarchy, only seniors hired as freelancers though, so quite autonomous people. Two dev syncs per week, fine if you skip one for whatever reason. One single manager for 10 people. It works quite well. For me this is remote working done mostly well.