Time Zones Trickery (Part 2) - Practicing Inconvenience For a More Equitable Workplace You remember how in my previous blog post I talked about care? I want to expand on care and its twin bothersome inconvenience. In many conversations at our organization, there’s often a reproach of “US centrism”, or even “US West Coast centrism” when it comes to time zones (other things too, but we’ll stick to time zones now). And it’s true. How […]
Time Zone Trickery (Part 1) - Defining Working Hours (Warning, this post contain 24 hour format times, brace yourself.) I work for an organization that spans many time zones. We have staff located from New Zealand to the West Coast of the United States, which literally is a whole day away. Of course during this pandemic we’ve been thinking a lot about how to do remote work. What are the norms, […]
