The timezone question is also about your family status. When you're single it's OK to work late at night for meetings with a far away team, when you have kids

The timezone question is also about your family status. When you're single it's OK to work late at night for meetings with a far away team, when you have kids and they go to school: - the 5pm-8pm time when they're awake and at home is a time you want to spend with your kids. Can be challenging when you're in Europe working with the US west coast, because that's precisely the best overlap time - you have to wake up anyway to send them to school, so you can't just move your sleep schedule However, when you do have this flexibility, sometimes the timezone difference can be helpful by splitting you day between one "communication period" (timezone overlap) and "no distraction period" (coworkers are asleep)