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And instead changing the time work and other things happens depending on where you are. Would be easier to arrange meetings across the globe. Same thing applies to summertime. You may start work earlier if you want, but dont change the clocks!

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[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 8 months ago

Humans, generally, like to be awake when the sun is visible and asleep when it isn't. The way we structure our thinking about time, morning, noon, evening, night, are based on the position of the sun.

The single time zone thing sounds appealing until Germans have to be up at 2 AM to speak with their bosses in NYC as that's a financial power center and thus gets to dictate the meeting times

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

That is already the case in multinational companies. The problem of daytime here nighttime there but we need to meet is the same no matter what numbers their respective timepieces say.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Perhaps the answer is to reform the concept of the meeting to exist in a far less useful way. Meetings should be a series of prerecorded messages sent via email and played like a correspondence game of Chess.

This would be incredibly inefficient and annoying and perhaps be a catalyst to finally make the weekly update calls a goddamn email that just reads "nothing to report this week, still on schedule to meet Q2 goals" and I can finally get back to smoking weed and ignoring my work phone until 11 AM (sorry, 0635 Neo Standard Time) when I feel like making someone else more money than I'll ever own.

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago

The single time zone thing sounds appealing until Germans have to be up at 2 AM to speak with their bosses in NYC as that's a financial power center and thus gets to dictate the meeting times.

This is how it happens already with international companies, no?

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago

It can be, yes, usually people attempt to be accommodating. I have a regular 8 AM meeting to collaborate with foreign colleagues for which it's a 4 PM meeting. Neither of us are happy about it, but that's compromise.

I think a universal timezone would end up exacerbating the issue of some areas deferring to the ideal time of wealthier areas

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I see what you're saying, about the awareness and consideration of other timezones that is encouraged simply by having individual ones.

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