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This happens a lot. People learn to respect each other's hours. You need to best coordinate global team meeting times that work for everyone. Our global standup is 1pm to work with our team on the west coast. If we had teammates in Europe we'd likely have it as their last meeting of the day or pull it forward about an hour. Depends on personalities, etc. In the end you need a process and you stick to it. You iterate on it as needed.
Boundaries are important. If you're just an individual contributor, there really should not be any expectation beyond 40 hours a week. It's a different ball game once you start managing people.
I’m currently working for a San Francisco company living in New York. I’ve also worked for them temporarily for 5 months from Europe (9h time difference). They’ve been nice to respect my hours as long as the work has been done and I’ve been on essential meetings. Everything has gone very smoothly and I actually prefer waking up earlier and getting my work done before the office opens. I’ve just had to plan my social life around the later hours but I don’t complain.
My meeting schedule isn’t crazy but usually I start working 9-10am EST with deep work and start joining meetings at 1pm EST. I stop working around 7PM unless I have late meetings—the latest I’ve worked until is 9-10pm if there’s a fire. So in short 9am-7pm which I feel is like a normal work day. Those 4h deep work sessions in the morning are so worth it!
I work EST and from time to time accommodate PST meetings. Everyone should respect each other’s time zones and make exceptions as needed.
i don’t work pst hours, i work my normal est. sometimes there’s a meeting scheduled in PST so i will attend that meeting. I don’t normally work other time zones unless it’s absolutely necessary to not miss the meeting.
All meetings for ESTs start at noon because it’s 9am PST. I have meetings from 12-6est and once in a while i’ll accommodate one at 7-8pm, or one at 8am-9am to accommodate india hours.
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I enjoy having my sacred workout time 8-10 am then work 10-6. I typically ignore anything after 6 unless it’s unusual like an annual event. I establish this schedule early on in starting a job, I think good communication is key.
I am UK based with my dev team India based & customers / stakeholders all US based. It’s all about managing your diary & being clear with your availability. I tend to be lucky with have a quite period in the middle of the day.
Honestly it depends on the team. My team did a ton of late night meetings and always ran over with no respect for the central and east coast team members. So there were plenty of 8pm calls. That being said, I eventually had to put my foot down and ask we be more respectful of each other’s times since I don’t make them wake up for 6am meetings. It helped.
I'm in USA working only for European clients. You make it work. I start working at 7:30am and it's 2:30pm for them. I make it so that all my meetings take place in the morning (i do 4-5hrs of only meetings when I wake up). Then the afternoon is only to work alone. It demands a little bit more or coordination but totally doable. I even work with people in Vietnam with 12 hrs difference. It's all about good communication (being honest about what you can do and won't do - like I'm not doing 3am calls) and scheduling.
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I work PST and my team is mostly EST and Europe. Essentially it only really affects me and the Europeans -
All meetings are early for me at 8am and EOD for Europe. My hours are ~8-4:30 and theirs are like ~10-630. but it’s flexible. As long as you get the work done and are present at the meetings the hours don’t matter much.
Yours should be fine working regular hours. You may need to work later once in a while but 5 hour overlap is enough imo
Make sure your West coasters are not oblivious. Had a consulting gig with the woman I was reporting to based in LA, and she constantly dumped significant change requests on the East coast based team during meetings at 5-6pm, even 7:30pm. She burned through our agreed upon hours so fast, which was bad for her, and everyone left feeling exhausted.