> I don’t think motivated devs want to go home at 2pm.
That's the beauty of it. Motivated engineers will use the spare time after 2pm to study and improve things. Or run some errands if they have to, without feeling their butt has to be glued to the chair until 6pm.
I've often solved many problems at work in my spare time or when taking a dump or something. It's pretty difficult to really get into deep thinking at the office because of 1. noise and 2. looking unproductive when you actually think hard.
Paradoxically office slackers bashing keyboard when chatting on facebook look more productive from a distance than somebody who actually is deeply thinking about system design and spinning in a chair or staring at a ceiling while doing it.
That's the beauty of it. Motivated engineers will use the spare time after 2pm to study and improve things. Or run some errands if they have to, without feeling their butt has to be glued to the chair until 6pm.
I've often solved many problems at work in my spare time or when taking a dump or something. It's pretty difficult to really get into deep thinking at the office because of 1. noise and 2. looking unproductive when you actually think hard.
Paradoxically office slackers bashing keyboard when chatting on facebook look more productive from a distance than somebody who actually is deeply thinking about system design and spinning in a chair or staring at a ceiling while doing it.