Chapter10: HowtoWorkinDifferentTimezones 107 out to be our winter solution. Both times have worked out for us, but they’ve forced each of us to be a bit flexible. “I’d quite happily stay a little later or get up a little earlier to avoid the stresses of a morning commute” - Lindsay Brand It doesn’t need to be terrible: just try to limit long meetings so you’re not straining someone’s schedule. And if you’re joining a team from far away, be preparedtobethemostflexibleone. It might even work out great for you, if you like to work nontraditional hours anyway. Software engineer Kevin Furbish found this to be true about his remote team at Intuit. “Many of us tend to work crazy hours, which mitigates being in different time zones.” Butevenstill, if you want to make a distributed team work, you need to accept atimeshift.“I’ll take phonecallslateintheeveningfromfolksthatdon’trealize I’m on the east coast and consider that part of the job for someone working remotelyinadifferenttimezone,”Furbishsays.