Unisys Corp reckons that if its development teams in Japan or Australia were to pick up the work when the folks in the UK knock off at the end of their day, it could work 24 hours a day and exploit the rotation of the earth to achieve a dramatical shortening of the time it takes to bring new products to market. Chairman James Unruh told Reuters at an information technology symposium that the proposal was to link teams of Unisys engineers at opposite ends of the globe by computer so that they could work on the same project around the clock. It is hard, he said, to assign teams to work around the clock in one location because most people with the talent and training necessary to design complex computer systems are unwilling to work an overnight shift. He had no time-scale for deciding whether the plan was feasible, but thought it inevitable.
