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Can't avoid it sometimes with distributed teams. I have a meeting at 3:30 AM Pacific tomorrow morning (I kid you not) because there are people in the meeting from 5 wildly different timezones (and I drew the short straw since I am the only one in Pacific timezone)!

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UK law requires a minimum 11 hour break between working periods. I'm not sure how that situation would work (it's rare, given the UK's timezone).

A friend in Sweden is sometimes on call overnight, but is expected to sleep. If he's called, he gets the rest of the day off, because of Sweden's implementation of the EU law these rules implement.

Right, but why would you work free overtime for that? Re-arrange your work day so the meeting is during it.

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