In essence the same as a period close, month close, new year. Things that happen at different times across the world since many years.
If we haven't managed to solve that predictable riddle in an organisation by now, what is the readiness for unpredictable events?
But I think you would agree that "
NOT having the problem at all" is superior to "
having a problem with known solutions". That is why in my OP, I referred to it as a "wasting people's energy" (I notice I had a typo in the OP thus not getting my message across! I wrote "
waiting people's energy" instead of "
wasting people's energy". I corrected it just prior to this post).
In my pre-retirement days with responsibility of an IT department with international access, it was a real headache. Besides scheduling meetings, conference calls, etc., on "short nights" we needed different batch processes to ensure proper up-time for domestic as well as not non-domestic business hours.
Tools were slower than and less powerful back then. Even mass emails were batched for overnight because of bandwidth constrains then. While we have better faster tools today, but knowing nature of people, I am confident people correspondingly expanded their expectations -- the available night hours would still be too short to do all the "likes to do's" and even less with "short nights."