[wladh]

I'm also a remote worker, but I work (mostly) on my local business hours. I'm in Brussels and my team is in California and I'm usually working a bit later (until around 7-8pm) to overlap with them and there's the occasional late night meeting, but rarely. This is a compromise on both sides (I'm working later than normal and they try to schedule the meetings early morning) and I think it's the only long term workable solution when you have teams in very different timezones. Otherwise you'll just burn out and get tired of having no social life and probably you'll health will be affected too. Besides, do you really need to talk to them all day long? If you're a developer, can't you just have some "sync-up" meetings every other day or so, during their morning?

[mattpardee]

Your post made me take a step back and realize that most of the day-in, day-out communication on Skype is less pressing than I originally thought. There are times when it's important to be around all day, such as during release sprints, but other than that, as time goes on it seems it will be less important that I'm on schedule with the rest of the team. Certainly the benefits of me working after a solid 8 hours of sleep outweigh any negatives.

The approach I'm planning on taking from here on out is to get to bed around 4 AM. This will allow me to get up at noon, do any day activities I need to do, and then start work in the late afternoon where I can then overlap with the beginning of their day and be a part of the standups.