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Also known as: timezone management, working hours, async overlap

Time Zone Management

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Definition

Time Zone Management: Time zone management involves coordinating work across different time zones to enable collaboration while respecting work-life boundaries. Strategies include defining 'golden hours' for real-time overlap, rotating meeting times to share inconvenience, and defaulting to async for most communication.

Example Usage

“With team members in SF, London, and Singapore, we identified 2 overlap hours (6-8am PT) for essential sync meetings; everything else is async.”

Common Misconceptions

Same hours required for collaboration. Async-first reduces need for real-time overlap; use it strategically.
Some time zones always sacrifice. Rotate meeting times to share the burden of inconvenient hours.
More overlap is always better. Constrained overlap forces better documentation and autonomous work.

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