There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
Austin and Bangkok live on different parts of the day. With 12 hours between them, standard working hours simply don't meet. Make the most of handoffs — end-of-day in one city becomes start-of-day in the other, so pass work along rather than meeting live. Don't be caught out by clock changes — Austin observes daylight saving and Bangkok doesn't, so the offset varies by an hour through the year.
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