What about teams that have a follow the sun model and need to be geographically distributed? For example I'm the only West Coast person on my team, so who exact

What about teams that have a follow the sun model and need to be geographically distributed? For example I'm the only West Coast person on my team, so who exactly would I collaborate with in-office in that scenario? It's clearly an attempt to layoff without paying severance and so they don't take the PR hit of doing layoffs.