OUTSOURCING?

Here’s How to Approach

Time Zone Differences
SHOULD YOU REQUIRE REMOTE WORKERS
TO WORK IN YOUR TIMEZONE?

OPTION OPTION
01 02

Have your outsourcing Ask that they work inside Do you want to work closely
team show up and do the your office hours for closer with your developers, or do you
work outside of your communication. trust them to manage and
normal office hours. develop your project with a little
leeway?
UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS WILL
YOU FIND TOP TALENT?

Most of your success will come from

working with the best available talent,
both in leadership and development.
BETTER CONDITIONS ATTRACT
BETTER TALENT

The top 1% of talent won’t If you require your Consider allowing your remote
tolerate being “on-call” all outsourced workers to work team to work in their own time
24 hours of the day. odd hours, the quality of zones and having them turn in
your project might suffer. the work as you start your day.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
THE TIME ZONE OVERLAP

It’s entirely possible to allow your developers to work their

comfortable hours that don’t perfectly align with your
office hours. However, certain hours will still “overlap.”

During this overlap you can maintain all your

communication and make urgent updates as needed.

Your remote team will up the project, according to your

direction, outside of your office hours.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
THE TIME ZONE OVERLAP

A normal work shift in India might be 9 AM to 6 PM.

If your development partner was willing to stretch the

hours, they might come in a little earlier or stay a little later.

This time frame would make it possible for them to

schedule times to connect with clients all over the world.
COMMUNICATE
YOUR PREFERENCES

Most good remote agencies will offer an in-depth

consultation before starting a project and continue to
provide communication touchpoints.

Remember, they want to keep you happy so you keep

coming back for more projects.

Your remote partner will be happy to keep up with

whatever level of communication is best for you, even while
working in opposite time zones.
COMMUNICATE
YOUR PREFERENCES

Schedule set times to communicate.

Usually, certain hours “overlap” in your timezone and your

remote team’s timezone.

Good remote agencies will work their communication

time into your schedule.
CONCLUSION

By implementing this method, you can

allow your remote team to operate
somewhat independently while keeping
If you want to inquire about working
their work schedules separate from yours.
with a remote team who is happy to
Or, they can work directly with your team
work with your schedule, you can
and block off hours in the week to
contact us here.
communicate.
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