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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by reaperducer on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @12:59PM (#23156306)
If the time zone difference is San Francisco to London, sure. But I've lived in Pacific while working for a company in Central, and live in Eastern while working for a company in Pacific, and it's not a big deal. You just adjust your daily cycle by a couple of hours.

Domestically, it only gets complicated when you have an entire office of people in a different zone. Then large meetings get hard to schedule around lunch and COB.

Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by ghaff on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:11PM (#23156489)
5-6 hour differences (e.g. US ET to GMT/CET) mostly work OK. Much more than that and at least one side of the call is going to be inconvenienced.
Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by taurath on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:17PM (#23156593)
Within continents it’s not much of a problem, just saying off continent can definitely be