The time travellers: Kiwis living here, working anywhere
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Jane Phare is a senior business reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjane.phare@nzme.co.nz
As thousands of expats return home to escape the grimness of Covid-19 restrictions, many still work at night for their overseas companies. Jane Phare talks to Kiwis who ve kept their old jobs and consults sleep experts about the dangers of tampering with the human body clock.
Aucklander Lisa Winsor goes to bed at 4.30pm these days, an hour earlier than normal thanks to the end of daylight saving this month.
Her late afternoon bedtime is a routine she s kept up since returning to New Zealand from the US late last year, spending two weeks at an MIQ hotel and emerging with relief into a life free from physical distancing, closed restaurants and constant mask- wearing.