From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 23-Jun-14 19:25, Jishnu Mukerji wrote:   
   > On 6/22/2014 8:12 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >> Except to Hawaii, there's little opportunity for same-day travel,   
   >> so that makes sharing a calendar day unimportant. Also, with the   
   >> six hour time difference with New York and Washington, there's not   
   >> a lot of the work day shared either.   
   >   
   > I know many might think this is crazy, but the notion of workday   
   > changes completely when you have to work across many timezones. My   
   > typical workday begins at 4 am and runs till about 10am, then there   
   > is a break of 4 or 5 hours followed by another 3 or 4 hours of work.   
   > That is the way it works out the best for the geographic locations of   
   > folks that I work with. So while there is relatively little standard   
   > workday shared, the actual workday shifts that we regularly practice   
   > makes for a pretty large "workday overlap".   
      
   Similar for me.  I regularly work with folks in Israel, India and China,   
   and less frequently with folks in Australia, Russia, Western Europe and   
   Brazil, which means lots of early morning and late evening meetings, and   
   in between is for meetings with US/Canada folks.   
      
   Much of the company works similarly bizarre hours, though, so nobody   
   cares if we take off a few hours in the middle of the day for personal   
   business--or even for a nap.  It all balances out.  As long as the work   
   gets done, nobody cares _which_ particular hours you're awake.  And many   
   people prefer to work "unusual" hours anyway, either due to odd sleep   
   cycles or so they can more easily split childcare duties.   
      
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