As I await a late night sync with a different time zone, I sometimes think how lucky I am
We work very closely with our offshore colleagues. Whether its trouble shooting, debugging, planning, setting directions, or perhaps equally important, just syncing to connect on a personal level to talk about none work issues. Doesn’t matter whether they are fellow employees, contractors or 3rd party partners, each and every person is invaluable.
Much of the time they participate in US time zone meetings, where HQ is. Often multiple nights a week. I guess myself always scheduling my own meetings with them in their time zones, which many of same time zone colleagues also do, is a bit of a respect thing, to share the load as we all have families, and time to relax in evenings is important. After all no matter our differences in opinions, scarce resources, and tight timelines, we all know we’re working to beat the competition.
So far it seems to be working pretty great, feel like I have a great working relationship. And am thankful my team and others in our TZ seem to have no issues with late night meetings when needed. Just need to make sure it’s not so often burnout becomes real.
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