[gerbilly]

>I've never understood required hours.

They want you there to answer questions.

Workplaces value availability because it's too difficult to design coherent systems and to document them. Instead of that boring old stuff, in the modern workplace, we go fast and break things (or never get them fully working in the first place).

Then we expect workers to be always around so they can be reached on slack when there is a problem.

[godelski]

Yeah, but with modern technology everyone is almost always reachable.

[gerbilly]

And that's an unwelcome intrusion into my time off.

But hey, I like surfing, and you can't 'reach' a person while they are surfing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[s73ver_]

I don't put company email or company chat (slack) on my phone.

[godelski]

Would you if it gave you more time flexibility? And could set it to only chats for you, not group?

[s73ver_]

Not at all. When I leave the office, I want to leave work concerns along with it. My off time is for me, not my employer.