I've found distributed teams with members in different timezones already try to minimize meetings and are really good at organizing themselves through email,sla

I've found distributed teams with members in different timezones already try to minimize meetings and are really good at organizing themselves through email,slack,scrum boards, etc. This may sound like I got lucky finding companies that work this way, but I dont think it is, all remote companies usually have employees and even founders who want some liberty to organize their schedule and only care if work gets done at the end of the week. During what are agreed to be my regular work hours I am expected to answer chats, so hiking would not be an option. When I only had one job I was wasting a lot of time playing bridge online. I was looking for small teams because I was afraid large companies would have more measures in place to avoid situations like mine.