Not a natural early bird, but I picked up the habit of getting up early because its a great way to get uninterupted time at work (without meetings, fairly silen

Not a natural early bird, but I picked up the habit of getting up early because its a great way to get uninterupted time at work (without meetings, fairly silent work environment with almost all desks empty). Now I get strange looks when I leave at 3pm. My employer let's us punch the time clock (we can do it online, too, which means it works with home office). I think you could run a noon to 8pm schedule (being in the office after that needs to be registered with facility management). PS: My personal (N=1) experience with being a night owl actually is, that I have no problem getting up early when I go to bed early enough. Setting my alarm clock to 9:30pm as a reminder to go to bed helps me a lot getting up early. I don't buy too much into this theory of a night-owl / early bird split in the population, because time is kind of a construct of a watchmaking civilisation. I'd assume sunrise and sunset are much bigger influences on individual's behaviour.