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My work schedule is shifted early, so I leave the office by 3pm. I think all offices should permit this to accommodate school pickups. A side benefit is that I

My work schedule is shifted early, so I leave the office by 3pm. I think all offices should permit this to accommodate school pickups. A side benefit is that I never have to commute during peak times. I do not need to be available at all times. There is an insignificant time-away-from-desk difference between going out for a coffee and having a short nap. A nap helps me stay unstressed, energetic, focused. I feel a headache coming on, a short nap nips that in the bud. Working continuously with no breaks is only a fine strategy for robots.

meowface 7y ago
I'm with you. Plenty of people (across all job industries, tech included) go out for long lunches and/or coffee and often aren't checking their notifications for most or all of that time. A nap is no different, and is just as, or more, important to productivity and health as food or coffee. For certain kinds of "emergency response" jobs in tech, that may not be an option, but for everything else odds are your teammates can survive if you aren't available right that minute. And even emergency responders need shifts and breaks during shifts. If you're a developer, unless you're very actively training a new team member or something, I can't think of many scenarios where an immediate response is truly needed. This is HN and everyone has a counterexample for everything, so I'd be curious about other takes on this, but that's been my experience. Remote-first companies seem to be very asynchronous (or at least try to be), out of necessity to accommodate people across all timezones, but also to encourage this kind of flexibility.