[errcorrectcode]

Yes. Communication and availability overlap is important to get certain kinds of things unblocked. Plus, career-wise, it's bad to be a vampire no one ever meets or sees regardless of electronic responsiveness within their working hours.

Although, I think butt-in-seat mentality was always broken if an employee could broadcast or interact from anywhere. There are certain kinds of pair programming, whiteboarding, co-design, collab, and conversations that lead to higher signal in-person vs. remote.

[devoutsalsa]

That’s why a lot of jobs have core office hours. My company’s main office works East Coast USA hours & we have a lot of team members in Europe, too. Unofficial our core hours tend to be like 9a to 1p eastern.