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How do you find the timezone change if you work remotely for an American company?

I work in my company's main timezone (US East coast). But my observation is that the (few) people we have on the West coast need to adapt to fairly regular 6am or so meetings and those in Europe often need to work into at least the early evening. It works although IMO being at all synchronous starts to get hard with more than a 6hr difference.

I worked East coast time from the Mountain time zone, with colleagues primarily in the East Coast, Europe, and India.

The 6am meetings were a constant feature - complicated by the semi-annual daylight saving time dance.

Indian coworkers shifted their work day a bit later (helped a little with traffic!). Europe definitely preferred the mid-afternoon meetings, rather than flipping them by 12 hours. Adding anyone from Oceania would be difficult...

I’m not the OP, but I have a similar situation. I’m on the west coast and work for a company based in the UK.

For the most part, it’s a minor annoyance that any problems I have or questions I need answers to are a 24 hour turn around, but otherwise I get my work done and deliver it and they get it the next day. If you’re on top of things, it’s not too challenging.

Working into the evening is a thing and evening meetings (American time) generally go unattended.

Annoying.

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