[wallflower]

In a former life as a corporate software developer, I distinctly remember having to get up at graveyard-shift hours to infrequently coordinate with some of our Indian team members.

Some minimal time-zone overlap is never overrated. I think it is hard to beat real-time communication over chat or voice - asynchronous delays break up any flow in collaboration and turn it more into throw the requirement over the wall and listen for an echo the next morning.

[cunac]

I found that up to +/- 4hr works , other makes life really hard For example we have team in Singapore 12 hr diff , every communication is so delayed that is really painful