Business & Remote Work

Scheduling across time zones is less about arithmetic than about the small number of hours two working days genuinely share. These guides are about finding those hours, protecting them, and arranging the rest of the work so that it does not depend on them.

If you read only one, make it How to Schedule Meetings Across Time Zones, which sets out the method: convert once, agree in UTC, and let each calendar render the result locally. The corridor guides then do the work for the pairings that come up most often, hour by hour, in Europe and the USA, Europe and Asia, the USA and India and Europe and Australia. Working with Remote Teams and How to Run a Follow-the-Sun Team tackle the harder case: a team spread widely enough that no shared hour exists at all.

Guides in this section (8)

How to Schedule Meetings Across Time Zones A repeatable way to find a slot that works for everyone, plus the invitation habits that stop a meeting landing on somebody at 3 am.
Best Time for Meetings Between Europe and USA The overlap between the European and American working days, hour by hour, and how the two DST calendars narrow it twice a year.
Best Time for Meetings Between Europe and Asia Where the European morning meets the Asian afternoon, and which pairings leave barely an hour of shared office time.
Best Time for Meetings Between the USA and India The India corridor in practice: which American zones can meet inside office hours on both sides, and which have to give something up.
Best Time for Meetings Between Europe and Australia One of the hardest corridors on the planet, and the two narrow windows that still work when the hemispheres pull the offsets apart.
Working with Remote Teams Across Time Zones How distributed teams cut their meeting load: written handovers, agreed overlap hours and defaults that survive a colleague being asleep.
How to Run a Follow-the-Sun Team Passing work between three regions so it never stops overnight: shift design, what a handover has to contain, and the ways it fails.
How to Avoid Time Zone Scheduling Mistakes The errors that cost real meetings: ambiguous abbreviations, DST gaps, all-day events and invitations created in the wrong zone.

Other guide sections

This is one of 8 sections in the library. The others cover Time Zones, Daylight Saving Time (DST), Travel, Interesting Facts, City Comparison, Country Guides and Time & Astronomy. The guides index lists every article we have published in one place.