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“Non-Linear Workdays”
Actually it just means working when you’re most effective.
I trawl LinkedIn occasionally for fun and interesting articles but, for the most part, am left continually disappointed for reasons I’ve touched on several thousand times¹ in previous articles.
However, one continual source of amusement are the BBC’s WORKLIFE posts that appear from time to time.
Often they seem to follow the shameful narrative that ‘Office is Good’ and ‘Remote is Bad’ in a strangely familiar Orwellian doctrine we’re only too familiar with from in this case Animal Farm, but usually Nineteen Eighty-Four when it comes to the corporate workplace.
Surprisingly, recently they posted an analysis of what they refer to a “Non-Linear Workdays” as a way of “shaping productivity” as if it’s some kind of new thing recently discovered under the overturned rock of pandemic accelerated remote working practices.
Workers Know Best
Frankly, the idea that people work best by staggering their work times, by making their own schedules and basically working when they feel like working, isn’t a new thing — most especially in my own fun past time of keeping my own head about water in the grand game of software engineering.