Chapter10: HowtoWorkinDifferentTimezones 110 4. You Still Need to Socialize, So Have a Virtual Water Cooler Staying in touch with everyone is easy nowadays. You can work at opposite times from the rest of your team, and still join in on all the office banter. The trick is a team chat app—for us, that’s Slack. “Oneofthesadpartsofworkingatadifferenttimetothemajorityofyourteam is missing out on all the work chatter, but with tools like Slack, it’s easy to catch uponthatandgetinvolvedalittlelater,”explainedZapier’s Brand. It’s impossible to overstate how crucial Slack—a team chat app that makes it easy to search through all of your team’s messages—is to remote teams. It’s the one app that comes up in nearly every discussion of how to make remote teams work. Even reporters from The New York Times have found that Slack helps themstayconnectedtotheirnewsroomwhileawayonassignments. “One danger of my job, as a columnist who works in California, is a feeling of disconnectionfromthemothershipinNewYork,”writestechnologycolumnist Farhad Manjoo. “Using Slack, I can peer into discussions that would never have been accessible to me. I can see how the producers and editors who