Working Around the Clock: Temporal Distance, Intrafirm Communication, and Time Shifting of the Employee Workday

The authors thank the senior editor Michaël Bikard and three anonymous reviewers for insightful suggestions; Dany Bahar, Heather Berry, Kirill Borusyak, Scott Ganz, Adam Kleinbaum, Wesley Koo, Megan Lawrence, Jeffrey Macher, Ferdinando Monte, Lindsay Oldenski, and Michael O’Leary for comments on earlier drafts; and Taemie Kim, Talha Oz, and Ben Waber for help with data access. This paper benefited from discussions with seminar and conference participants at Georgetown University, George Washington University, Harvard Business School, University College London, University of California, Los Angeles, the Wharton School, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Global Strategy and Emerging Markets Conference, Gran Sasso Science Institute, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Organization Science Winter Conference, Rice Strategy Symposium on Emerging Markets, Sumantra Ghoshal Strategy Conference, Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics Conference, Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Strategy Science Conference, Wharton Technology and Innovation Conference, and the Wharton People and Organizations Conference. Shaila Sundram provided excellent research assistance. Any errors are our own.