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I agree. When I worked in London for Nokia I tried to keep to Finland time where possible, as it made things a lot easier. Then they added teams in India and China and it became a nightmare.

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Try organizing a meeting with attendees from Beijing, Redmond, and Cambridge. Ya...it doesn’t work.

India is the absolute worst for the USA because they are almost 12 hours off.

From my experience working with global teams, as soon as you have Asia & EMEA, you need to go to two meetings if you actually want to retain said staff.

This is annoying, but it's much better than people taking meetings at midnight, which is what happens otherwise.

2 meetings work fine for large company / departmental scope presentations, because only %1-5 of the people in the meeting have to do the midnight thing, but break at the 5-10 person level unfortunately. Someone is forced into a midnight meeting somewhere as part of syncing up planning between teams at the very least.

Not necessarily.

It just requires the manager/lead to run two meetings.

I did this with small teams for many years, and it's annoying but it can be done.

I generally aimed to have everyone together 1/quarter in person to do the higher level planning stuff, which would be much more difficult in the times of Covid.

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