There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
Boston and Sydney live on different parts of the day. With 14 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.
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