Clocking In Across Time Zones

What work actually feels like in different countries

Bea Santiago2 episodes2 min of audio55 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Mar 15, 20260:4531 plays Preview

How Sick Is Sick Enough to Stay Home

A Berlin engineer who takes sick days without guilt meets a Lagos bank teller who has never taken one. Bea referees a conversation about illness, trust and who really pays for presenteeism.

S1 · E1Feb 22, 20260:5124 plays Members

Can You Leave Before Your Boss Does

Bea and a Tokyo marketing manager compare the unspoken rules of leaving the office, from Manila's exact 6pm exit to Tokyo's long goodbye, and what happens to the person who breaks them.

About the show

Bea Santiago spent six years running night-shift teams in Manila for clients in Sydney, London and Dallas, and she noticed that every country had unwritten rules about work that nobody wrote down because everybody assumed they were universal. Clocking In Across Time Zones is a weekly two-host conversation, about forty minutes, in which Bea and a rotating co-host from another country compare how a working day really goes: when you can leave, how you say no to your boss, whether lunch is thirty minutes or two hours, what the office party is for, how sick you have to be to stay home, and what happens to the person who complains. Guests have included a Tokyo salaryman, a Lagos bank teller, a Berlin startup engineer, a Dubai hotel housekeeper and a Buenos Aires lawyer. It is a show for remote workers, managers of international teams, anyone about to take a job abroad, and anyone who suspects their own office culture is stranger than they think.

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