[OnWriting]

I'm in a similar situation where I'm in Australia, but I work with many colleagues in the UK. This means late night meetings and work commitments that fall outside of the usual 9-5.

How do you stop it from going 9-9? Block out times in the middle of the day for leisure?

[rorykoehler]

I'm in Germany and work for an Australian company. What I do is make sure I have 4 hours overlap for comms. The rest of the day is mine to structure as I want. Sometimes, if there is a deadline looming, that means working until the evening (like today) and other times I take my kids out to the playground. Come back and do some work for a few hours, then go biking, then maybe finish something off... or not. However I feel within reason basically.

[thraxil]

We try to keep meetings to a minimum (the entire company's remote, so async has always been more central to our communication). If I do have to have one that's late for me, I'll usually make a point of taking some hours earlier in the day off to compensate.