Remote team working hours across time zones

• Pick the shared window first. Find the hours when every location is working, then make those your core hours for meetings and quick replies.
• Let the rest of the day flex. Outside core hours, people work when it suits their time zone.
• Write the hours down per city. “9–5” means nothing on a team spread over 10 hours. List each city's local hours and the core window in each local time.
• Plan for the weeks that break it. The US, UK, and Australia change clocks on different dates, so overlap can shrink or grow by an hour for a few weeks each spring and autumn.

• Rotate the early or late meeting so the same people aren't always on at night.
• Move status updates and reviews to written, async channels.
• Shift one location's day by 1–2 hours. A small shift on one side often creates a usable window.
• Use the meeting planner to find the slot with the smallest stretch for everyone.

Not every team works Monday to Friday. Israel works Sunday to Thursday, for example, so a US–Israel team only shares four weekdays. Public holidays rarely line up between countries, which is when “is my team available?” becomes a real question. Track holidays per city so a missing reply isn't a surprise.