Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM in Zurich is 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Manila.
Schedule calls for 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM in Zurich — your colleagues in Manila will be online from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Manila is 6 hours ahead of Zurich, which gives you a solid 4-hour window. Book earlier in it and neither side is rushing. These times hold for most of the year, but Zurich's daylight saving (which Manila doesn't use) shifts them by an hour twice annually.
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