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How to Work Across Time Zones as a Remote Team: Best Practices

Christine Orchard · Arc Free Intermediate

This is a practical, tactics-first piece on the exact problem: keeping a team aligned when working hours barely overlap. It leans on real examples from Zapier, Help Scout, and Arc, so the advice is grounded in companies that actually run this way rather than theory. Read it as a starting point for building your own async habits, then keep what fits your team.

• Default to async and write things down with full context, so a message sent at night still moves work forward by morning.
• Protect your small overlap window for the conversations that genuinely need real time, and rotate meeting times so the same people are not always inconvenienced.
• Set explicit deadlines and expectations up front, since a vague ask crossing a time zone can cost a full day of waiting.