I don't mean to brag. It really bothers me I come in to the office just before the daily standup, work for 6 hours and leave before anyone else. (I usually spen

I don't mean to brag. It really bothers me I come in to the office just before the daily standup, work for 6 hours and leave before anyone else. (I usually spend an hour or two doing non-programming tasks each day) I don't think you should be bothered... I've seen the 'about six hours' of productive coding figure come up multiple times when teams actually experiment with their hours worked and their productivity. I suspect that your co-workers would be more productive if they had the same work pattern you do. I can definitely say "work smarter, not harder" is really effective for me. I don't know if it's true for everyone but I suspect it is. I'm pretty darn sure of it myself. Every team I've worked on that's been doing more than 45 hours a week has got more productive by cutting hours worked. Rather than staying up until 1am in an awe inspiring hacking session to get the latest release running, I'd much rather people went home at 5pm so they were on the ball enough not to write the damn bugs in the first place.