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Time zone is gonna be tougher. Going from sync to async requires a big shift and most big companies have enough trouble with communication.

One other benefit to companies - maybe they won’t pay a premium anymore for people who live in expensive areas.

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If the time zone difference is San Francisco to London, sure. But I've lived in Pacific while working for a company in Central, and live in Eastern while working for a company in Pacific, and it's not a big deal. You just adjust your daily cycle by a couple of hours.

Domestically, it only gets complicated when you have an entire office of people in a different zone. Then large meetings get hard to schedule around lunch and COB.

5-6 hour differences (e.g. US ET to GMT/CET) mostly work OK. Much more than that and at least one side of the call is going to be inconvenienced.

Within continents it’s not much of a problem, just saying off continent can definitely be

Twitter and other global companies have been managing the time zone factor and using online chat, video calls, etc. for some time now.

It turns into early hour / late hour meetings that your dread and don't want to do. I bet as a result people silently start not working with those big time zone difference teams and it become bifurcated.

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