Along the beaten path
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 5:02 am
The guys shared the good news about my employment with the Peklo Studio team, and team leader Lesya Soboleva began to intensively introduce me to the tasks and culture of the agency. At that time, it seemed that I was not the first and not the last to start working remotely. For coordinated but remote work, you just need to be added to work chats, accept the reporting rules and other work issues. After a couple of months, I noticed that I also needed to organize my work taking into account the large time difference.
Working moments
Toronto is 10 hours behind Bishkek time. At first, due to lack of afghanistan whatsapp number list experience or uncertainty in actions, there was an endless stream of questions and clarifications to colleagues and the project manager on a variety of issues. I simply flooded work chats with messages, and also bothered them in personal correspondence
I remember a couple of screw-ups. Monday. The end of the working day in Bishkek, I get a task: collect a semantic core for an online course on Targeted Advertising. The deadline is tomorrow. I read the task at a time when all my colleagues are already offline, since they have late evening, and I have morning. I start collecting keys and understand that I need to clarify what's with the GEO? I "squealed" to the curator about the cities, but it's too late. It remains to move on to completing other tasks, but the deadline is tomorrow!
Or I needed to write SEO texts for a company in New Zealand, there is no information about clients in Google, nothing is described on the website, my colleagues are sleeping. This means that the task is postponed for at least a day
The team rarely left me without immediate answers to questions and details, but incidents did happen.
To make it clear
You need to adjust to the time zone and the company's work schedule, if there is a huge time difference, you need to train yourself to get in touch about an hour before the end of your colleagues' working day. In case you have current issues and need to discuss them, everything can be resolved without taking up the personal time of employees
Working moments
Toronto is 10 hours behind Bishkek time. At first, due to lack of afghanistan whatsapp number list experience or uncertainty in actions, there was an endless stream of questions and clarifications to colleagues and the project manager on a variety of issues. I simply flooded work chats with messages, and also bothered them in personal correspondence
I remember a couple of screw-ups. Monday. The end of the working day in Bishkek, I get a task: collect a semantic core for an online course on Targeted Advertising. The deadline is tomorrow. I read the task at a time when all my colleagues are already offline, since they have late evening, and I have morning. I start collecting keys and understand that I need to clarify what's with the GEO? I "squealed" to the curator about the cities, but it's too late. It remains to move on to completing other tasks, but the deadline is tomorrow!
Or I needed to write SEO texts for a company in New Zealand, there is no information about clients in Google, nothing is described on the website, my colleagues are sleeping. This means that the task is postponed for at least a day
The team rarely left me without immediate answers to questions and details, but incidents did happen.
To make it clear
You need to adjust to the time zone and the company's work schedule, if there is a huge time difference, you need to train yourself to get in touch about an hour before the end of your colleagues' working day. In case you have current issues and need to discuss them, everything can be resolved without taking up the personal time of employees