When you expand your team to include global talent, you will discover a wealth of benefits for your tech company.
Hiring remote employees in emerging markets like Central Asia, provides you with access to a global talent pool with lower employment costs that can be a competitive advantage for your team — and that is just one benefit. An added benefit of hiring remote employees in different parts of the world is that working across time zones allows you to improve productivity with increased hours of operations.
That increased productivity allows you to finish projects on an accelerated timeline and achieve your goals faster — but can be a challenge when you have to manage a global team that works in multiple time zones. Truss has years of experience building and managing remote teams across the globe and we want to help you learn how to manage a global team across time zones.
Contact Truss today for more information on our global hiring and management platform!
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3 Best Practices for Managing a Remote Team in Different Time Zones
While managing a remote team that lives and works across the globe in vastly different time zones represents a challenge — this challenge can be mitigated by implementing best management practices and using the right tools.
In reality, what can initially seem like a logistical challenge can become a great competitive advantage by allowing for a 24/7 workflow where productivity never really stops. But it is important to understand that bridging these gaps requires more than just smart scheduling. It demands a shift from traditional synchronous management to a workplace culture built on flexibility, communication, and trust.
Here is a better look at the best practices for managing a remote team in different time zones:
1. Adapt Asynchronous Communication Strategies
When your team is all working in the same time zone, it is simple to communicate and collaborate with the rest of the team. To minimize the impact of different time zones, global teams must adapt an asynchronous strategy where remote employees can operate independently, picking up a project where other team members left off and using shared tools to complete tasks. Innovative solutions like Slack, Asana, Google Calendar, Microsoft Teams, World Time Buddy, Monday, and more facilitate easy communication when employees operate in different time zones and provide your team with a centralized platform to monitor project progress.
2. Create a Workplace Culture Focused on Trust and Autonomy
When you have a team of global employees that live and work in different time zones, it is impossible to monitor and manage everyone — which means you need to trust your employees to meet and exceed expectations. This starts by setting clear expectations for remote employees in terms of communication and project management.
By putting the focus on the objective rather than the hours when employees work, you can give employees the autonomy they need to do their job and do it well on a timeline that best fits their own schedule. A key part of building a culture of trust with remote employees is to help them bond with the rest of your team through virtual team building activities and by respecting their personal time when it is not an emergency.
3. Create a Flexible Schedule for Global Employees
Multiple time zones mean you have to be more flexible on how you build your employees’ schedules. This can start with establishing core hours for remote employees in different parts of the world and allowing different schedules to overlap for short windows (2-4 hours) to promote live collaboration when it is possible. Innovative scheduling and collaboration tools make the process even simpler, and by minimizing the time spent in needless meetings and rotating meetings so a few employees are not always the ones sacrificing sleep or entertainment for work, you can accommodate employees from around the world.
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Hire and Manage a Global Team with Truss
We know that learning how to manage a global team across time zones can be complicated — but Truss is here to help you build and improve your remote workforce.
Truss has built an end-to-end global hiring service that will help you find, recruit, hire, onboard, and manage employees across the globe. You can provide us with a list of job and skill requirements and Team Truss will find employment candidates in growing markets like Central Asia that check all the boxes.
When you have found the perfect fit on our list of candidates, Truss will help onboard remote employees and will help you manage payroll, benefits, and vacation time. In addition to helping you find the perfect addition to your team, Truss has the ability to function as your Employer of Record in Central Asia, and ensure your company remains compliant with local labor laws.
Contact Truss today to learn more about how we can help you build and manage a global team!
