Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs

Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal... by Piskvorrr on Monday March 09, 2020 @07:54AM (#22524652)

Language can be learned; but working with an European/US West/Malaysian team was a nightmare, because there's no way to schedule anything in everyone's daytime, and the resulting latency has horrible knock-on effects. Everything else can be changed, but the rotation of the Earth is...sort of non-negotiable.

(Mind you, we avoided actual teleconferences like the plague, but even sending an email was problematic: "yeah, this needs to go to A in Malaysia. God forbid that it then needs to go to B in USA, and then to C in Europe, because that's two whole days until you get a reply, minimum". Persuading people to work night shifts didn't quite work, either.)

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Re:Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormal... by blaser-waffle on Monday March 09, 2020 @09:50AM (#22525292)

> Language can be learned

Sure, but that doesn't mean they're communicating in the same way. You've got to learn (or unlearn) cultural aspects, too.

Then throw in the timezone difference, and a clear level-of-effort difference aka "case of the fuck-its", and you get a workflow that is entirely different from the local office.

We got around the time difference by offshoring in Latin America, who are on the same timezones.

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