[TruffleMuffin]

Are you currently employed? What job is offering you unrestricted control of your schedule? No requirement to work with others? No requirements to attend meetings at fixed times? etc. From what you said, I can't picture a workplace that is functional like that.

[lmilcin]

I have worked in couple of places, mainly largest banks, as a contractor Java dev.

Your freedom is directly proportional to the trust your manager has in your good judgment. If you can build the trust and convince the manager (indirectly) that they don't need to handhold you and it's better to use their time to focus on other things you can be doing mostly the stuff you decide needs to be done.

From my experience, in case of FB moderators, these things happen because of some kind of corporate scarring. I guess somebody or a group of people seriously exploited their freedom and the management instead of trying to actually understand and solve the problem used shotgun/lazy management to just outright squash the problem along with every team member's freedom.

[llamataboot]

But you can work with others and figure those things out together, all with autonomy.

"Hey, I'm gonna be in a different TZ next week and 9AM standups really won't work for me, can we find a time in the afternoon that works for all of us?"

"Hey, Jane and i were talking and we really want to try making this standing meeting into something async for a month and see if it works for folks, how does everyone else feel about it?"

Of course you have to work with others, and you may have to work with others that for various reasons are in a very 9-5 schedule, but if you have autonomy, you can figure out how to do that without it meaning "Be at your desk by 9AM or else!"

[dionidium]

I'm a software engineer working remote for a large company. Obviously, yes, I have meetings, some of which are required. But there is no other detail of my schedule, large or small, that's restricted or required or externally imposed.