Thanks for answering.

> Thats pretty much the situation I was in before I started taking on more.

During that time, if you didn't work, would it have been possible to pursue a completely different activity such as going hiking for example? Or did you have to be "on standby" at home?

Why are you looking for small teams in particular? And how did you make sure that there aren't too many meetings in particular?

Sorry to bother you with so many questions.

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.

Interesting to hear this. An acquaintance worked for a big Telco, and one day his director walked up to him, and asked him "why he was idle yesterday". That's how he found out that every one is being monitored. This was not a remote job.