Working Across Timezones
Conference calls are awkward. I work in Shanghai as part of a dispersed corporate publications team. All of my colleagues are situated in Continental U.S. With a 12 to 15-hour time difference, I only get to interact with my colleagues a couple of hours a week, slurring my words through the morning conference calls and praying for the caffeine to kick in. But I, at least, speak English fluently when caffeinated. Language barrier can make virtual conversations extremely challen