The 9-5 premise is about having regular hours (whatever they are) so team members can get in touch if they need to. It&#x27;s also about signaling when team members <i>can&#x27;t</i> get in touch. Both are important since they are implicit to an office but something you need to be careful to correctly define&#x2F;signal when you are working remotely.<p>I don&#x27;t really look at commit logs because, to me, they reflect how one prefers to work, rather than how productive they are being. 2 people can easily have 2 or 20 commits for the same feature set. I&#x27;m not going to be calling one a 10x engineer based on that :)<p>To that end I don&#x27;t believe in looking at commit log, or time tracking (!) because both can be falsified pretty easily: they are just another form of counting lines of code IMO. I prefer to look at how much customer value someone is delivering and how much other team members listen to them.