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If the time zone difference is San Francisco to London, sure. But I've lived in Pacific while working for a company in Central, and live in Eastern while working for a company in Pacific, and it's not a big deal. You just adjust your daily cycle by a couple of hours.

Domestically, it only gets complicated when you have an entire office of people in a different zone. Then large meetings get hard to schedule around lunch and COB.




5-6 hour differences (e.g. US ET to GMT/CET) mostly work OK. Much more than that and at least one side of the call is going to be inconvenienced.


Within continents it’s not much of a problem, just saying off continent can definitely be




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