Currently I am in the same boat as you. My company is spread between, San Diego, San Fran, Dallas, SC, Georgia, NY, London and Russia. Time zones can be difficult to coordinate for all company meetings, but otherwise it actually works quite well. We are able to service all of our clients because their is someone present in most awake hours of there day. It works well for http://www.protuo.com.

The point is that, you need to be sure to set up your teleconference so that the interruptions are minimized and broadcasting the desktop sharing information in an email or Outlook appointment update right before the meeting starts will save you some time.

Another aspect of meetings with people from different parts of the world is word usage. English has become a de facto standard for international meetings, but by no means is everybody speaking the same version. Words and phrases can have very different implications in California than they do in India. I recently posted an article on my blog entitled The evils of slang in an International work force that goes into this in more detail.

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