Stop Doing Math Before Meetings: The Ultimate Guide to Managing Global Time Zones
Mental gymnastics to figure out what time it is in Tokyo? You're doing it wrong. Here's why your team needs a visual time zone board, not a calculator. -
Best overlap: 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Tokyo is 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Dubai.
If you set up a recurring sync, 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Tokyo (8:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Dubai) is the natural home for it. Around 5 hours of overlap is enough to work comfortably, as long as meetings don't drift to the end of one team's day.
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Mental gymnastics to figure out what time it is in Tokyo? You're doing it wrong. Here's why your team needs a visual time zone board, not a calculator. -
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