A lot of that stuff is known to have a discriminatory effect, but kept in place regardless. Also: open-plan offices.<p>The fact is that you can&#x27;t get a sense of a creative worker&#x27;s capability with a two-week audit cycle. You get noise that stresses people out.<p>Employers know that people have 2-3 good hours per day (that&#x27;s neurotypical people). The 9-to-5 workday is just to maximize the likelihood of getting that 2-3 hours. If people could work a 3-hour day, the theory is that the ones who aren&#x27;t on an inside track for advancement would put their good hours into other projects and give the company their crap hours. I don&#x27;t think that that&#x27;s fair or accurate, but it is the thinking.<p>Then there&#x27;s the general problem of a white-collar world so bereft of vision that, in most organizations, we have to inflict stupid stresses on people then measure them based on their decline curves... when any robust, sane, humane system would get nowhere near the right side of said curve.