Remote Workers: What are some common problems faced by you?

Re:Remote Workers: What are some common problems faced by you? by AlexITC on Sunday August 25, 2019 @10:01PM (#20796933)

One detail that hasn't be mentioned so far is, scheduling meetings when the team is distributed among several time zones.

We used to have weekly meetings with different timezone considerations, Latin America, Europe, and Australia, the problem is that you can't find a good time for everyone, I used to wake up at 6 AM to take the meeting while my Australian peer was taking it at 11 PM, and the Europeans taking the meeting at the meal time.

While most meetings could just leave one of those time zones out, there are certainly meetings where having everyone present would be ideal.

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Re:Remote Workers: What are some common problems faced by you? by gj0 on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:54AM (#20797945)

Valid problem, thanks for mentioning it.

Curious, to know how good are these scheduling apps for the same ? https://doodle.com or https://calendly.com/

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Re:Remote Workers: What are some common problems faced by you? by Hnrobert42 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:31AM (#20807395)

I use an ios app called timetape to keep track of different timezones. It’s not great, but it is simple and effective.

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Re:Remote Workers: What are some common problems faced by you? by AlexITC on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:03PM (#20801542)

I haven't tried them but the in our case, the problem is the same, there is no good timing to accommodate the 3 time zones.

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