From your team&#x27;s perspective:<p>It&#x27;s so team members can get in touch if they need to. It&#x27;s also about signaling when team members can&#x27;t 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. Note that it doesn&#x27;t have to be 9-5 office time, just needs to be hours people expect to be able(and not able) to get in touch: 12-8 your local time? Go for it! Whatever works so you can maximize you and your team&#x27;s work&#x2F;life balance :)<p>From a personal sanity perspective it&#x27;s as firebones says in reply.<p>FWIW, I  -- and most engineers -- fall victim to the the personal sanity perspective rather more frequently.