[alksjdalkj]

> Work-life balance at Shopify is unparalleled. Work is synchronous-ish but it's super easy to run out for some afternoon errands or a quick workout. Shopify is pretty visionary here - turns out happy and healthy employees do better work than ones that are chained to a desk all day

Is this really that unusual? I feel like most places I've worked, as long as I made it to meetings nobody cared if I stepped out for an hour to run errands or something.

[blitzar]

> Is this really that unusual?

Extremely.

Lets obviously ignore the large percentage of the workforce that are waiting tables, stacking shelves, have to use a punchcard and have their hours tracked to the nearest minute etc. for whom stepping out for an hour to run an errand probably means they get paid a couple of hours less at best or fired if its done without the permission of their supervisor ...

Professional 'knowledge' workers - there are workplaces where its ok, there are workplaces where you would put your career into reverse at 100mph by not being present from 7am to 8pm for your 9am-5pm job.

[MattGaiser]

A lot of it depends on how much you are willing to extract it from the company.

[altdataseller]

Sounds like table stakes to me in 2022. If any company tried to micro-manage me, I would be out in a second

[aiisjustanif]

That would majority of company in the Fortune 500 and dependent on your job function in IT.

[mrtranscendence]

I can only speak for myself, but it doesn't feel that uncommon. It probably depends on the kind of business you're working in. I've heard bad things about finance, for one.

Having worked for almost ten years now, I've always been able to take off an hour here and there without having to battle for it or come back with doctor's notes. When I was a contractor I'd generally have to tell someone and make up the time, but even then it was never a huge deal. Where I work now no one cares what I do at all as long as I'm reasonably productive.

Technically your work hours here have to encompass (IIRC) 11-3 I think? Or 9-3? Something like that. So no working third shift, I guess. But it's pretty flexible.

[joshcsimmons]

This is good to hear! I’ve worked positions before where this definitely wasn’t the case (had to use limited PTO for doctor’s appts). Maybe this is something that’s changed significantly since COVID

[SkyPuncher]

Relative to the average office job, yes. In a tech-centric job, this is pretty common.

[geodel]

> Is this really that unusual?

You'd be surprised. So many places it is not the thing. Or it is made hasslesome with team calendar update plus email to manager with justification and so on.

[PragmaticPulp]

It’s not unusual at all. It would actually be more strange in 2022 if a tech company was trying to micromanage every hour of every day of each tech employee.

[MattGaiser]

It need not be micromanage, but could rather just be stuffing your day so full that you have no choice but to work continuously.

[aiisjustanif]

Go try Amazon and many companies aren’t “Tech” companies.

[odiroot]

I'd say that's more or less a standard thing in EU, for desk jobs.

[dgellow]

Quite standard in Western Europe