I am talking about meetings, not general work. Meetings mean you hold people up . General work means you probably won't. The article also talks about meetings,

I am talking about meetings, not general work. Meetings mean you hold people up . General work means you probably won't. The article also talks about meetings, not general 9-5. If your coming to work too late affects people then you should fix it. If it doesn't but is an abitrary rule you just have an overbearing boss, so fix that. Note that everything doesn't come down to "if I'm not bringing corresponding value, they should fire me". It's that attitude that'll do you more disservice in the long run.