follow the sun

present singular third person follows the sun · participle present following the sun · participle past followed the sun · past followed the sun

1. To holiday or winter in a sunnier climate.

   November was almost upon us; for me, there were just a couple of months to go. The sun was setting on my journey. Much warmth and light had surrounded me these past months as I followed the sun to so many countries and met so many […]

   2012, Laurie J. Rutherford Pederson, The Year I Followed the Sun, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 338

1. uncountableProcess where a business places its support teams across several time zones, so that it is business hours in at least one zone at all times.

   Some organisations are implementing a 'follow the sun' outsourcing strategy to facilitate 24x7 services – i.e. the customer calls are directed to whichever location is operating within normal working hours […]

   2007, Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, Building a Future with BRICs: The Next Decade for Offshoring