Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I seriously think that the specific range of hours was not at all the point of the example. Would you disagree?

If you're going to nit-pick, my kid starts school at 9am, so I can't start work before 9am. What about remote workers and the example of walking around the office?

I'm pretty sure the example was specifically to note that cutting off their work hours was a successful tactic with respect to leaving them with something to start in the morning, vs letting them finish what they're working on and then have to figure out what/how to get started on in the morning.

Literally the point of the article there, leaving your work unfinished or broken, as it were, so you can just jump in knowing the next thing you were already going to do last night, but forced yourself not to or were forced to not finish.



I’m not not picking, I’m disagreeing with the idea that the relative end time is all that matters. I specifically did not blame the manager in my comment.


It’s really not clear what you’re saying other than that 6pm would be too late for you personally.

As I’ve explained - I picked that time as the latest people were allowed to work in the office. Before I adopted this, people were randomly staying much later.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: