Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, have definitely been some of the most influential persons in the IT industry. In addition, Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft and Steve Jobs, also a co-founder of Apple can be considered the icons of these two decades. Their companies are also one of the biggest ones in the industry therefore there exist many branches in all over the world. Speaking of branches, since most of current big IT companies have their foreign branches, many are now doing worldwide projects. For instance, a software company which its main office is located in San Francisco work with their Tokyo office staff, and proceeds one project. However, recent development in Information Technology enabled far more flexible and efficient forms of work. That is, global work-sharing. As it is explained above, it is no longer rare thing to work with offices in other country. It can easily be imagined that there is time difference between countries. Global work-sharing is very unique in that it uses this time difference to improve efficiency. As for example, a Japanese IT company called NTT Date operates their work with two different countries, Germany and India. Especially between Japanese and German offices, they conducted 24 hours operation. One German team worked from 15 to 25 and two Japanese teams worked from 8 to 24. With these three teams they did not really have to stop their work. Accordingly it became possible to deliver their products to the customer more quickly. This type of work can now be seen in a lot of companies and is getting the eye.
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