Glossary · Managing remote work

Follow-the-sun

Follow-the-sun is a working model where tasks pass between teams in different time zones at the end of each workday, so work continues around the clock. Support tickets, monitoring, and development are common uses. It depends on clean handoffs: written status updates, shared queues, and clear ownership of every open item.

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What it means in practice

A Philippines-based hire working Manila daytime hours can pick up where a U.S. team left off and have work ready by the next U.S. morning. That suits overnight customer support, inbox triage, data processing, and content production.

Most small businesses get more value from overlap than from handoffs, at least at first. Start with your hire on your hours, document the work, and shift some hours to follow-the-sun once the processes are solid.

Rekruuto hires work the hours you set, full time, so you can choose overlap, handoffs, or a mix.

  • Time-zone overlap

    Time-zone overlap is the number of working hours two people or teams share live on the same day.

  • Asynchronous communication

    Asynchronous communication is any exchange where people do not need to be available at the same moment, such as email, recorded videos, shared documents, and task comments.

  • Distributed team

    A distributed team is a team whose members work from different locations, often across cities, countries, and time zones, with no single shared office.

  • Standard operating procedure (SOP)

    A standard operating procedure (SOP) is a written, step-by-step description of how a recurring task is done in your business, including the tools, inputs, decisions, and expected result.

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