FWIW, +1. Speaking as someone who has made the "participate for several days in a meeting held in a far-away time zone" shift several times, shifting is hard. It is harder when local people, family, and friends have expectations about one's availability in the time zone in which one is located. But rotating hours on a per day basis (or less) is the path to insanity and/or missed meetings (whether through confusion or exhaustion). best, john --On Monday, April 20, 2020 20:38 +0000 John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In article > <046f94c1-bbb4-387e-0ca7-a54656dc3f98@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I wonder how well it would work for online meetings to have a >> sort of rolling schedule - say start each day's activity two >> hours later than the preceding day. > > That seems fairly pessimal to me, ensuring that every day is > chaotic. > > It's one thing to know that you have to shift your schedule > and stay up until 2 AM for meetings during the week, as > opposed to to midnight Monday, 2 AM Tuesday, 4 AM Wednesday, 6 > AM Thursday, oh now I have to get up early, ... > > In my experience if you have people from all over the world, > and you want to spread the schedule pain around, you should > change the times no more than once a week, and maybe no more > than once a month.
