But the shift in which companies are now offering remote work options provides a clue to why time-zone bias is becoming worse. Previously, most of the businesses that hired international and across states were bigger companies with bigger infrastructure. They are more likely to have software that can handle scheduling, videoconferencing, and accommodating larger groups of people in different time zones.
Katrina, whose last name has been withheld so she wouldn't get in trouble for speaking about her job, is a customer-service associate for a nationwide telecommunications company. She often didn't have a supervisor at the end of the day because of the time-zone difference. In one case, she said, she was"admonished" for not handling a situation with a customer the same way the supervisor, who wasn't reachable, would have.
John, who worked for a company in Texas and lives on the West Coast, also had to pick up other teams' slack because of his time zone. Because he was the last to log on for the day,"end-of-day deliverables like coverage reports, rapid commentary, etc. often got handed over to me," John told me. Jane took her job at the creative agency because she thought her local 9-to-5 working hours would be respected. When they weren't, she tried to sign off promptly at 5 p.m. anyway, even though she felt guilty as a new employee and worried about how her new bosses would view her. But the expectation that she'd adhere to the company's time zone continued."Once I even had to request a 'half day' of PTO just to sign offline at 5 p.m.
It seems like half of your articles are about the poor remote workers and how they're treated and that there aren't enough remote positions. Do you realize that you sound whiny? Poor pajama people. The entitlement is nauseating.
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