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mrbadideas | 4 years ago | on: Google staff squirm as remote workers face pay cuts
Time difference: this can be mitigated for North America by using teams in South America, but scale is typically limited, The time difference in India is brutal for everyone, you end up having small windows of time to communicate synchronously either early or late, people are typically tired when this communication happens, either just waking up and trying to get their kids to school/ family going or trying to go to sleep so they can wake up early for another call… which leads to sleep deprivation!
One way around this is key individuals who have strong people + technical skills spend significant amounts to of time at the start of projects in North America(assuming it is a NA centric project) this allows them to fully immerse and absorb the nuances of the people, product, requirements and politics of the program, this is expensive and can be challenging from a visa perspective, any project I’ve worked on that has succeeded started with this.
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