maybenewexpat wrote:Working in the USA while living in time zone shifted by about 12 hours wouldn't make it easy to contact other people in real time (other than working at night). Similar for working for e.g. British company (about 6 hours of time zone difference).
I don't know to what extent this is the insurmountable challenge you see it as. For example think of the EU/US subsidiaries in Asia and how they interface vs their head offices. For example when I worked in Tokyo we'd interface vs NYC in the early morning, deal with local matters during the day, then 'hand-off' to London on the close/their open. There wasn't 24hr staffing at any location and via the above there didn't need to be. It was more a case of having say a one hour window in the morning to set the direction, and another to close things out (end of day), and around and around the world and the clock it went.
There were a few times I'd have NYC on the phone at home in the small hours but only if there was some major reconciliation break.
So I suppose a question is how much do you require ongoing open channels during the day? How critical is that to your end-of-day productivity?
maybenewexpat wrote:I know some companies prefer working around the clock but I think that everyday real time interactions with other team members are important at work to make sure that final product is good. Even those companies that work around the clock, have teams in the given places, not single people that have nobody to talk with in real time.
I wonder how much of the 24/7 is used because it's necessary, vs it's simply there.
maybenewexpat wrote:One other thing it has to do with is whether there exists any double taxation treaty agreement between the countries.
IME you can answer such a question pretty simply by Googling it. I.e it's simple 'headline' info to find, either on the relevant Revenue website, and/or as press releases - not something buried deeeep in some obscure tax manual.
ps. Welcome to the forum!
