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Subject:RE: working and scheduling From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:30:39 -0600
From: "Latella, Vincent" <VINCENT -dot- LATELLA -at- saic -dot- com>
Subject: RE: working and scheduling
We have personnel in New Jersey, Georgia, and Hawaii who interact
regularly with colleagues on Guam and in Kuwait.
Despite our distance, what you're describing has never been an issue
here; they know when it's night here, and we know when it's night there.
If someone tried to schedule a meeting via Outlook at say... 3 a.m.
local time, let's just say that the meeting wouldn't take place.
Instead, it's an unspoken rule that meetings are going to occur as close
to normal working hours as possible. For instance, when I conduct
teleconferences / webconferences with people on Guam, I run them at 6
p.m. here in New Jersey, which works out to be 8 a.m. (the next day) on
Guam.
Anything outside of that would be a gross inconvenience to one location,
so that would definitely not fly.
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Sounds good in theory, but if you've got branch offices all over the
world, or on opposite sides of the globe, wouldn't it be impossible to
schedule a meeting that was at a "normal" time for everyone? I mean, it
would have to be 3:00 a.m. somewhere
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