“Uniformly distributing inconvenience” is exactly the wrong fix for bad meeting times and it shows a profound insensitivity to employees. Work-life balance is

“Uniformly distributing inconvenience” is exactly the wrong fix for bad meeting times and it shows a profound insensitivity to employees. Work-life balance is important. If you are creating so many inconveniences that you think you need to fairly “distribute” them, then you desperately need to figure out how to eliminate all these inconveniences. Distribute responsibility to the point where generally each region can be self-sufficient for its assigned tasks. If you are having meetings multiple times per week across time zones, something is wrong. Sync-ups across sites are not completely out of the ordinary but they should be rare. And most crucially, when they occur, fully expect and encourage those involved to leave early the next day or come in late some time that week, i.e. they get that time with their family back, it is not simply sacrificed on the altar for the benefit of company investors.