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authors:
- title: Piers Sinclair
url: https://www.ssw.com.au/people/piers-sinclair
- title: Adam Cogan
url: https://www.ssw.com.au/people/adam-cogan
related:
- mentoring-programs
- efficiency-do-you-always-try-to-work-in-pairs
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**Tip:** You can use a [time zone converter](/collaborate-across-timezones/#use-time-zone-converter--time-difference-calculator) to know the time difference between offices. You may also install one of the numerous apps to help with that info.
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## What can be improved?
## What improvements come from better interaction?

It is crucial to build **interaction** between all company offices because it often improves the following:

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* Understanding of foreign perspectives
* Knowing why someone from another culture responds to questions in a different way to what you are used to

## Methods
## Boost interaction with unique strategies

Think about what your company can do to increase interaction. There are tonnes of unique ways that interaction can be developed. Examples include:
Think about what your company can do to increase interaction. There are tonnes of ways that interaction can be developed. Examples include:

### Team building activities
* **Team building activities**
* Playing a game together
* Solving a puzzle together
* Reviewing/updating a company standard together
* Go on a group trip (e.g., to the Great Wall of China)
* Visit local companies together
* Retreat - Have a company retreat to bring everyone together

* Playing a game together
* Solving a puzzle together
* Reviewing/updating a company standard together
* Go on a group trip to the Great Wall of China
* Visit local companies together
* Retreat - Have a company retreat to bring everyone together
* **[Cultural Exchange programs](/cultural-exchange)**
* Having employees from China work in every Australian office for a month each or vice versa
* Having developers from Brisbane spend a week in Melbourne

### [Cultural Exchange programs](/cultural-exchange)
* **[Mentoring](/mentoring-programs)**

* Having employees from China work in every Australian office for a month each or vice versa
* Having developers from Brisbane spend a week in Melbourne
* **[Working together](/efficiency-do-you-always-try-to-work-in-pairs)**
* Pair programming
* Mob programming

### [Mentoring](/mentoring-programs)
* **Rotating Daily Scrum**
* Each week, 1 person from each office is paired up to do a Daily Scrum with others

### [Working together](/efficiency-do-you-always-try-to-work-in-pairs)
* **Creating cross-office teams and events**
* Putting developers from the China office onto a project with Australian developers
* People from different offices are paired up to have virtual coffee
* A Chinese dev does a presentation at the Sydney User Group

* Pair programming
* Mob programming
* Sitting together to work side-by-side
* **Cultural events and videos**
* Celebrating holidays from other countries
* Organize meetings to discuss culturally different issues
* Film videos about other offices
* What is it like to work in the China office?
* Localization - What is your reaction if you see Chinese on a web page?
* What are the differences in the app market in China and Australia? I.e. WeChat vs Facebook etc
* Have a weekly language exchange catchup
* Having a cultural performance day where everyone chooses something cultural to perform such as a culturally relevant poem

### Cultural events

* Celebrating holidays from other countries
* Having a cultural performance day where everyone chooses something cultural to perform such as a culturally relevant poem

### Creating cross-office teams

* Putting developers from the China office onto a project with Australian developers

### A fun weekly company meeting

* Everyone meets on Friday for 30 minutes to discuss a fun question

### Rotating Daily Scrum

* Each week, 1 person from each office is paired up to do a Daily Scrum with others

### Virtual coffee events

* People from different offices are paired up to have virtual coffee

### Get people involved with events for others offices (especially other countries)

* A Chinese dev does a presentation at the Sydney User Group

### Organize meetings to discuss culturally different issues

* Everyone talks about localization or WeChat Mini-Programs
* Have a weekly language exchange catchup

### Film videos about other offices

* What is it like to work in the China office?
* What are the differences in the app market in China and Australia? I.e. WeChat vs Facebook etc
* Localization - What is your reaction if you see Chinese on a web page?
* **Fun weekly company meetings**
* Everyone meets on Friday for 30 minutes to discuss a fun question

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