How are you approaching meetings across different time zones, especially within your team?
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CISO in Software2 years ago
I don't have teams in different time zones, but one thing we’ve implemented is doing more standups together. We have a daily standup in the morning and then we have an afternoon one, which is not as compulsory.
CIO in Manufacturing2 years ago
We have our headquarters in California, but the majority of our company supply chain and some G&A folks are in the mountain time zone, so that is what we've centered on for most scheduling. It might be a little early for those of us on the west coast, but it's a nice middleground for the folks that are working in the central and Eastern standard time zones. And we don't have a lot of operations globally, not to the extent that it would play into how we do things.SVP - Software Engineering in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago
Try to take earlier calls EST time so our India team doesn’t have to stay on too late. But, each team has different dynamics and schedules so we really ask the teams to talk with each other to work it out.Director of IT in Software2 years ago
I have team members in three different time zones. We try to schedule the meetings so they fit everyone, i.e. not too early for someone on the west coast and not too late for someone on the east.It also depends on the meeting attendees, whether they are in the same or multiple time zones.
The HQ is in MST time zone, so when scheduling meetings with external parties, I based them on MST.
Director ERP Management in Travel and Hospitality2 years ago
I managed a project where teams from US and Asia worked together. This was interesting mix. Our overseas provider was able to align partial resources with our US time zone but some of the resources were only available outside the US time zone. I had to change the working hours for some of the US team members to work with overseas team and still stay within 40 hours work week. I have seen a slight performance impact in the results.
Even before COVID, it was a very office-centric environment, so it took a large cultural shift to move to remote working. To layer in competing time zones as you're building up those teams adds complexity. And it's not as if you have one person in every major region that helps to cover that overlap between the two. If you just have one person in California and one person in Asia, what do you do with that? That's going to be an interesting problem for us to solve.