Ask HN: Draconian rules/policies at your current or previous company?
I&#x27;ll <i>try</i> to present a different point of view from the other comments. (Whether it applies or not, depends on the actual context within your environment - which only you and the people around you are privy to).<p>There seems to be some history to this decision (and probably other decisions), as indicated by your comments:<p><pre><code>  This standup was imposed after many of the team members that participate joined the company (before that, the standard time to arrive was at 9:00am)

  I brought that up to the CEO&#x2F;founder and he responded that he&#x27;s open to proposals. I said that my proposal was to eliminate that policy, but he mentioned that &quot;you cannot replace an idea with a non-idea&quot;. Then I mentioned that they should at least reduce it, but he responded that if they reduced it, people would start getting in late (which they rarely did before that policy, and if they did, it was for very justifiable reasons).
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I find it hard to believe that simply having new hires would have triggered this change in timing from 9am to 8am. Did someone, <i>deemed</i> senior&#x2F;important, request this change? Is the standup headed by your founder? Were people constantly late to this standup&#x2F;meeting?<p>Further, what is the average&#x2F;median work-ex of team members in your company? Are people able to work largely independently, or do they essentially need face-time with senior members to be productive?<p>PS: Try not to internally frame this as an &quot;but flexi-time <i>should</i> be there, it is best for developers&quot; argument. Those are not universal truths. They need to be seen in the context of the business&#x2F;domain you are in, the maturity of the team, and the culture that the company wants to build&#x2F;promote.<p>Context: I&#x27;m a founder where I have implemented heavy-handed policies after getting tired of people not adhering to basic work-place protocols (&quot;professionalism&quot;), even after informally pointing out such things multiple times.