It's very weak of them to do that, but when HR lackeys pay lip service to 'work life balance' and 'work life integration', it's easy to see where people get the

It's very weak of them to do that, but when HR lackeys pay lip service to 'work life balance' and 'work life integration', it's easy to see where people get the idea. This is one of my favorite points of tension in business - 1) Businesses want people performing at their highest level 2) Businesses want people to work collaboratively without much latency 3) Businesses want to pay people as little as possible In these high-concentration jobs, it's not unusual for people to be most productive at night. However, many people don't want to work at night so there's a cost to working with people during the best time for them. And businesses don't want to put up the money for people to justify a radical lifestyle alteration. So everyone gives and takes and things work suboptimally but well-enough that no one terminates the relationship.