Ask HN: People who work different timezones than your company. How sched?

I worked with teams located in Israel, Ukraine, Poland, UK and Easter, Central and West US while based on Mountain Time.

Long story short, really weird times. Even though most of the communications were async, I still started really early and then called it at midday because I didn´t have more battery on me. I followed up on things by mobile chat in the afternoon but I was already checked out mentally by 2pm. Sometimes when I felt rested enough I gave it a little more in the nights and coordinated with early birds from Europe before I hit the bed.

This went on for over 2 years easily. I gotta say I completely burned out and it took me a long time to recover.

For the ones asking why?. The business outsourced some services overseas which became part of the critical path.

Currently living in central time and working for a company on eastern time. It’s pretty sweet. I’m up at 630 cst which is 730 est but no one really wants a meeting before 9am est (8am cst). I get a few texts between 7 and 8 cst but no big deal. Back there they are winding down around 3pm est which means I often have from 2pm cst on all to myself and it’s still sunny and beautiful out for a long time. My biggest challenge is staying up past 8pm cst which is a solid 6 hours after work has finished but the sun is still out. I’m losing the evening fishing time.