5 Signs Your Global Team is Suffering from 'Time Zone Fatigue' (And the Cure)
Is your distributed team burning out? The culprit might not be the workload-it might be the clock. Here's how to spot Time Zone Fatigue and fix it. -
Shoot for 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Singapore; your Lisbon colleagues will see that as 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Lisbon is 7 hours behind Singapore, so you've got a workable 3-hour overlap — ideal for a standing meeting around 3:00 PM in Singapore (8:00 AM in Lisbon). Daylight saving complicates things slightly: Lisbon observes it, Singapore doesn't, so the difference flexes by an hour part of the year. To edit hours, add more timezones, and share with your team, create a free collaborative board.
| UTC (GMT+0) | 12am | 1am | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm |
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Singapore Asia/Singapore | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm | Next Day 12am | 1am | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am |
Lisbon Europe/Lisbon | 1am | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm | Next Day 12am |
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