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[quote=Anonymous]OP i think you're overreacting.

I also think since covid, the work day is a lot more fluid for a lot of people. Especially younger people. Alot of my colleagues will come in and leave the office at random times during the workday to achieve their "in office" requirements while also avoiding commuter traffic.  And it's more normal for people to take a midday walk if they're home, or go to yoga in the middle of the day and come back to the office. And it's more normal for moms and dads of young kids to take time 7-9am and 4-8pm to hang with their kids.  Ten years ago, those were completely unacceptable. But the trade off of those being acceptable is that a lot of people are logging in from 6-7am and 7pm-1am in ways that they weren't 10 years ago.  A lot of my colleagues still work normal hours in total, but are doing them from totally different times of the day -- and they're really happy about that flexibility. Like my colleague with 2 young kids under the age of 4 who is in LA but works with a lot of east coast people.... he loves getting up 5am his time (8am ET) and working for 3 hours, then hanging out with his kids for a few hours while he leisurely tends to work. Then 10am PT he drives to the office in 30 minutes. Stays for a few hours to login his mandatory in office time and leaves by 3:30pm PT (6:30pm ET), then goes home and hangs with the kids for a bit and then logs in for probably another 5 hours in his evening, after the ET people are all logged off. It ends up being a pretty standard work day for a well paid professional, and it looks like he's working all the time. But he swears he is not - he's just working at the times that work well for him and he loves avoiding traffic and spending a lot of time with his kids and wife. But i'm getting emails from him at all times of day, including a lot of 1am ET my time.

I use this as an example, but almost all my colleagues are working different hours than they used to. And I think we are years past the era of needing to tiptoe around it and apologize for sending after hours emails. No one necessarily expects responses at those hours. But they shouldn't have to apologize for it either.  I think anyone under the age of 50 who has any flexibility in their job is benefiting from this right now, and is fine with it. And also knows not to read into after hours emails from their colleagues. [/quote]

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