{"id":51,"date":"2015-08-31T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T04:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glints.com\/inside\/?p=51"},"modified":"2015-10-26T23:05:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:05:58","slug":"ahod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glints.com\/sg\/inside\/ahod\/","title":{"rendered":"AHOD All Hands on Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We run a virtually 24-hour operation at Glints.<\/p>\n<p>The sales, client success, marketing &amp; part-product teams come in to office anytime from 9am &#8211; 11am and leaves between 6pm &#8211; 9pm. The remaining part of the product team comes in to office anytime from 3pm &#8211; 6pm and leaves between 5am &#8211; 7am. On average, that leaves an unoccupied office for 2 &#8211; 3 hours daily.<\/p>\n<p>One location, two timezones.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits to a physical team is evident, and while <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automattic\" target=\"_blank\">some<\/a> have successfully pulled off a completely distributed team, most organisations still value the in-person element of working together as a team.<\/p>\n<p>In response, we came up with AHOD hours &#8211;\u00a0<strong>All Hands on Deck\u00a0<\/strong>hours, between 3pm &#8211; 5pm daily where we could organise inter-team meetings. But more importantly, AHOD hours provide our team the common knowledge that if they require information or support, the whole team will be in office then.<\/p>\n<p>A simple concept, but one that we found to be tremendously useful in facilitating communication.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the graveyard shift concluding their work for the day (or is it evening? 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