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by satvikpendem 977 days ago
Is that with the understanding that your employer is more amenable to you taking time off during the weekdays if you do happen to spend time working on the weekends? Because many employers would want to have it both ways and not allow you to take time off the weekday just because you worked during the weekend.
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t1mmen 977 days ago
Yes, everyone at my $WORKPLACE is free to adjust their work schedule to whatever best suits them; we don't care about ass-in-seat or hours of work, we care about output and impact.

This isn't just lip-service, either. May be hard to believe from a US perspective, but for a Norwegian based company, it can be taken at face value. It's the best place I've worked in my 22+ years.

Minor asterisk; we do have a few hours every week where you should be present (check-ins, meetings, all-hands, etc), but it's <5h/week for most people.

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satvikpendem 977 days ago
No worries, it's very believable as I worked in a role like that as well. However, there were certainly issues like production-related, getting unblocked by teammates, etc that necessitated being on during much of the workday, so most people didn't work weekends on top of that either. It wasn't the US-centricity that caused this outcome but rather technical issues. I assume if your company does not have the same issues then it's much easier.
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t1mmen 977 days ago
In reality, most people are working core hours, say 10am-3pm local time. Most are in UTC +/- 2 hours. I’m an outlier, remote from B.C, Canada.

It’s usually best to stick with a “normal schedule” for family/socializing reasons, anyway.

But, it’s incredibly freeing, being able to work when the mood strikes. I used to be a night-owl, often getting super creative in the evenings. I could force myself to bed, sure, but a 3-4 hour stint in the evening would regularly produced outsized returns. 8-9am+ couldn’t remotely compete, creativity-wise, so why force it? Build a culture around trust and impact, it works out a lot better than anything else I’ve seen in practice.

I rarely do late nights anymore, having transitioned to 6-7am starts, an hour or two hiking around lunch with the dogs, and a small handful of hours of wrapping up & planning for tomorrow. But that was all my choice :)

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