Eliminate the impact of shifted workday

In the past week, the people in China just went through the tomb-sweeping holiday. As a result, the week of 4/2/2012 were broke into three parts which only contains only two workdays in this week. People in China have gotten used to such kind of shifting on the calendar. However, most of people in US have no idea what happened to the calendar.

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Typically, we have two ways to eliminate the impact of the shifted workday.

• Share the calendar with US team ahead
  • This is the major means to eliminate the impact of shifted workday. Usually all the holiday/vacation has been taken into account in the proposal phase.
  • As long as the project starts, the team usually will create a centralized calendar where the team can share the holiday/vacation information publicly.
  • Turn on the auto-reply
    • In case the people in US team forget to check the calendar, they can still get the auto-reply so they can be posted about the on-going holiday in China.

At US end, there is less shifted workday but still there are some holidays which the Chinese people are not familiar with. So the US team usually will do the same thing to keep the GDC team on the same page.