>For starters, Microsoft employees worked four more hours a week, on average: “Employees said they were carving out pockets of personal time to care for childre

>For starters, Microsoft employees worked four more hours a week, on average: “Employees said they were carving out pockets of personal time to care for children, grab some fresh air or exercise, and walk the dog. To accommodate these breaks, people were likely signing into work earlier and signing off later.” In the latter half of the 90's, I interned at Sun with a role that supported remote workers (dual channel ISDN back then) and observed pretty much the same thing. Usage logs showed people getting on briefly in the morning before the family routine started, being online in blocks throughout the day with gaps around start/end of school, dinner time, etc., and then back for a quick late evening burst of activity.