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What do you mean you won’t be woken up in the middle of the night? Someone is going to need to wake up in the middle of the night.
by bergenty 4y ago
What do you mean you won’t be woken up in the middle of the night? Someone is going to need to wake up in the middle of the night.
- wikibob 4y agoThere’s another team in the opposite timezone that handles on-call, for the majority of Google SRE teams. Additionally as noted elsewhere, on-call time is directly compensated. With a 5 minute response time service: you are credited 2/3rds of the hours that you are on-call outside of local business hours. These can be used as additional paid time off, or paid out in cash. With a 30 minute response time service the hours are credited as above, at 1/3rd time.
- bergenty 4y agoOh that’s cool. I should consider that for my org.
- wikibob 4y agoOne big benefit of directly compensated on-call time is it removes much of the difficulty of covering shifts. Instead of everyone feeling like they have to keep track of who owes each other a shift covered, it’s just paid out. In vacation hours or cash. So if you pick it up, no stress, you’ve been paid for it.