There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
Bali and Boston live on different parts of the day. With 13 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. Daylight saving complicates things slightly: Boston observes it, Bali doesn't, so the difference flexes by an hour part of the year.
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