Share the inconvenience of the time zone

Career · Little Light original

The meeting fits neatly between your morning calls. For a colleague elsewhere, it lands at the dinner table again. Because they always attend, the arrangement begins to look convenient for everyone. Their reliability has made the cost less visible, not less real. Working across distance requires more than finding an empty square in a calendar. Some conversations can happen in writing. Others need a shared hour, and that hour can sometimes move so the same people do not always give up the edge of their day. Notice whose flexibility has become part of the team's operating assumptions. A global role offers the chance to work with people whose lives run on different clocks. That difference deserves practical respect, not only appreciation in a closing slide. You cannot make every meeting equally easy, but you can stop treating one location as the natural centre of everyone else's time. The colleague who keeps showing up should occasionally find that the team has adjusted for them too.

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