Expecting programmers to problem solve for 8 hours is stupid
There&#x27;s a funny&#x2F;weird dynamic with this. We all need to appear like we work as much as everyone else appears to. Looks like your teammate puts in 9 hours per day? Well you do too. Otherwise you&#x27;ll look like a slacker, even though both of you get five or six hours of work done. If everyone did it, it&#x27;d be fine and you&#x27;d both get hours of time back to do anything else.<p>What&#x27;s weird is that this dynamic affects workplaces too. If you are in an org that actually lets people work great flexible hours you won&#x27;t advertise it too much, for fear of attracting workers whose primary goal is to slack, or getting a reputation an org of slackers. And if you&#x27;re a job hunter who cares about this, you can&#x27;t really dig in to asking about the hours everyone is expected to work for fear of being perceived as a slacker.<p>Nobody can be open about it (orgs or teammates or applicants) and thus the problem persists.