Core Hours for a Team Across Four Time Zones
Before you write a core hours policy, do the arithmetic. A team spread across four time zones from Central Europe to the US west coast has, on a standard nine-to-five, no overlap at all — not a narrow window, none — and the policy you are able to write is decided entirely by that number rather than by what you would prefer. Teams skip the arithmetic, announce core hours of 10:00 to 15:00 in a time zone nobody names, and find out in week two that it means 06:00 for one person and 22:00 for another. ...