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   Message 774 of 3,261   
   Adam H. Kerman to Jishnu Mukerji   
   Re: more time zones   
   24 Jun 14 00:35:12   
   
   From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   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".   
      
   Fair enough.   
      
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