Companies are global. But has the globe prepared?
After covid, a major workplace shift took place - a lot of people realised they could work from home and the company wouldn’t collapse. Now, in 2025, we have remote workers, people on different continents, working in the same team.
From 7.9% of remote workers worldwide pre-covid, it’s jumped to an estimate of 25% - 30% of all workers are remote.
Right now, I’m in Thailand, surrounded by digital nomads at my workspace, all working online, and most that I’ve met are working with a company abroad, in Europe or America.
As another example, ecommerce now ships around the world. Whether I’m in Thailand or England, Amazon will deliver me a package. Shopify merchants sell across 175 countries and every year they flex an interactive globe displaying all sales happening on their biggest day of the year, black friday.
That’s a lot of logistics to think about!
And while there are 24 standard time zones, there are over 400 in use across the world.
It’s no wonder people get tangled up in all the conversions!
Either the software messes up or it’s just plain human error, but it’s high time we stop these mix ups in the workplace.
One redditor told of how my exec is pissed - scheduled a meeting in the wrong time zone:
I get such anxiety scheduling across time zones, even though I do it all day long. I usually double check for accuracy 3+ times just to be sure. Yet still this ended up in the wrong time zone. I apologized sincerely, offered up any help I could provide, and said this wouldn't happen again. I don't want to keep bringing it up, but is there anything I should do or say to my exec to help build that trust back?
Another told of how a recruiter got confused about time zone so I wasn't interviewed:
The recruiter and I agreed on a time for an interview. I mentioned that I am in MST time zone and they confirmed the time by replying "how about X day at Y:00 MST?". The day of the interview I was a bit concerned they would confuse MST with MT and call an hour early.[…] the recruiter called and left a voicemail. The voicemail was to confirm that I was still interested in doing the interview and said to call back or email them. I called 4 minutes after they had called, but no answer[…] It kinda sucks to have missed that chance
Certain apps like Calendly or Google Calendar make scheduling meetings around the world a lot easier, but there are still major problems that entrepreneurs, sales people, marketers, devs and revops people face that aren’t being solved; that’s why I built…
Convert Time!
It’s a Chrome Extensions that scans the page for common time zone formats like:
- 12:30 AM GMT
- 2 PM PST
- 9:00 EST
- 14:00 CET
And then underlines any timestamp text it finds. When you hover over that text area a little tooltip will pop up with a time conversions to your local time!
What’s cool is I built it all to work locally in your browser, so it doesn’t send data anywhere - just detects your local time and converts!
Note: if you have a VPN on, it’ll adjust to the location you’ve set on the VPN.
Here’s a few examples of it:
I have a few ideas on how to make this super useful, especially by including more timestamp formats, so I can’t wait to get this out there!
P.S. This is my 1st Chrome Extension!
Try it out here (it’s free!)