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It’s inevitable though. If you’re doing 100% remote why would you limit yourself to the same time zone?
by addicted 2y ago
It’s inevitable though.
If you’re doing 100% remote why would you limit yourself to the same time zone?
- ghaff 2y agoA few hours is mostly pretty workable. But you get beyond 5/6 or so and it's harder. (Where I last worked US East Coast to Central Europe seemed workable--where the two main engineering facilities were. Anything much beyond that would probably have been hard.)
- addicted 2y agoThis is true. However, when you’re trying to build a company that works remotely then asynchronous communications becomes an almost necessary part of that. Going from in-office to remote in the same time zone is a huge lift, and increases your target employee market from 1 city to 5-6 time zones (ie a quarter of the world). But developing your company to work across time zones is a much smaller lift and will quadruple the employee target market for the employer from 5-6 time zones to 24 time zones. If you’ve already made the significant effort to increase your employee access to a quarter of the world, it’s very likely you will make a slight additional effort to extend that to the entire world.
- thayne 2y agoBecause your employer requires you to live in the same time zone? Or at least work during the same hours as people who live in that time zone?
- addicted 2y agoWhat I mean is why the employer would limit employees to the same time zone.
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