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title: Organizations in high latency environments
description: The relationship-derived virtual properties that support the organization model are generally calculated in response to relationship signals that travel down the organization tree hierarchy. Imagine, for example, that a new root organization is added to an existing organization hierarchy (or that a new admin or owner is added to the root of an existing organization hierarchy). The relationship signals that trigger relationship-derived virtual property calculation are propagated down the organization hierarchy, and to all members of the organizations in this hierarchy. This, in turn, updates their relationship-derived virtual property state.
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# Organizations in high latency environments

The relationship-derived virtual properties that support the organization model are generally calculated in response to relationship signals that travel *down* the organization tree hierarchy. Imagine, for example, that a new root organization is added to an existing organization hierarchy (or that a new admin or owner is added to the root of an existing organization hierarchy). The relationship signals that trigger relationship-derived virtual property calculation are propagated down the organization hierarchy, and to all members of the organizations in this hierarchy. This, in turn, updates their relationship-derived virtual property state.

If there are many thousands of members of the organizations in the hierarchy, this operation can take a long time to complete. It is therefore best practice to grow an organization hierarchy *downwards*, adding new organizations as leaves to an existing hierarchy, and adding new admins and members to the leaves in the hierarchy tree. This is preferable to growing the hierarchy *upwards*, starting with the leaves, and growing the hierarchy up towards the root.

If you *must* add a new root to an existing organization hierarchy with many organizations and many members, or a new admin or owner to an organization near the top of the hierarchy, rather perform this request over the command-line, using the examples provided in the previous section.