[ardit33]

You can make 1pm to 5pm as mandatory, so both the 9-5 folks and 1pm to 9pm folks have some overlap for synchronization, meetings and such.

As for people exploiting it, you should measure relative performance and not but time

One of my first startups I worked had a noon-4pm core hours. You had to be in by noon, and should stay until 4pm, the rest was flexible. I thought it worked really well for both early risers and late owls.

[jniedrauer]

> you should measure relative performance

This is also easier said than done. How do you measure programmer performance? LOC is obviously not a reasonable metric. Closed tickets isn't either. It takes an experienced manager who understands code to understand what work is actually being done, and managers like that are rare and valuable.

[bobthepanda]

The thing is managers already do this either consciously or subconsciously. So we’re just changing how they apply it.

[AlwaysRock]

12-3 is what I prefer for mandatory hours. I'm still going to see you if you are a 6am early bird.