Folks in my company who work overseas are usually more sensitive to time zone differences and the like than domestic US staff.<\/p>\n
Which is why I’m amused that when I sent out a meeting request to everyone that said …<\/p>\n
When<\/u>: Occurs every 2 weeks on Wednesday effective Nov-12-03 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada).<\/p>\n
… both of my people (de facto) in the UK wrote back that 7:00 a.m. was a little early for them, and could I schedule it later? One also was confused why my time zone and theirs were only two hours apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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