Manager insists remote employee of 21 years attend 90 minute, 6:30 AM meeting three times weekly: 'I am genetically inclined to be a night owl'

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• While it is all well and good that the age of remote working allows us to connect with colleagues around the world, those time zones bend for no man. It can mean that catching up on a call with somebody who works in a different place from you can get a bit awkward. 

  The thing is, there are workplace setups where there is no getting around this conundrum. It is inevitable that at least one person is going to have to compromise for the sake of everything working smoothly for the team as a whole, and they may not be happy with doing that.

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• In this story, an employee who had worked remotely for a company for more than two decades was reassigned to work with a team on the opposite side of the country from them. These coworkers had a ninety minute team meeting three times a week, right at the start of their working day.

  This was an issue for the employee, as it meant that they had to start work at 6:30 AM their time. They knew that they were not well-adjusted to early starts, and they didn't believe that it would be productive for things to continue like this. They weren't sure how to approach this with their manager.

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