Having been at my new job for long enough to engage with a wide variety of regions, I’ve started to deduce some trends in my workday as I engage with clients across multiple different timezones. My observations, brought to you in list form:
- Singapore gets to work at about 8:30 – 9:30, just in time to be catching emails from Sydney requesting meetings asap, to get them in right before their lunch
- Bangkok has one last request and query, right before Singapore’s lunchtime
- East Coast USA is very willing to schedule an important call, at around 9pm Singapore time
- Vancouver has about an hour of solid troubleshooting in their evenings before running out the door, which sets a good tone for the working day in Singapore
- Mumbai is rip-roarin’ ready to go, just as Singapore slips into a post-lunch food coma
- London finishes up their morning meetings and starts submitting queries just as Singapore heads out the door
- …and finally, nobody sleeps in Malaysia, as those emails come in ’round the clock!
I apologize if this wasn’t the breathtaking and insightful first-post-back people were hoping for, but I felt like blogging. To ease your pain, here’s a lovely picture of one of the most difficult client site’s I’ve visited yet:
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