If you want to work like a hourly contractor, be one. Work your hours.
If you want to be a $250k engineer and fuck around on Netflix waiting for something for 75% of the workday, you’re demonstrating a lack of maturity and professionalism. Or you work for a really dysfunctional place.
If you’re running your own shop, you’re empowered to run it to your needs. That’s awesome. Mine are different.
My point is about supervision. If an engineer making a quarter mill needs somebody over their shoulder to produce, that’s the core issue.
If during an afternoon where they have to wait for somebody else, I’d rather they go for a casual walk and think through a hard issue slowly and carefully than sit at a desk artificially, writing dumb emails to keep up the charade they are “busy”.
(Of course the person they are waiting on now has to read said emails instead of finishing their task - busy work is net drag on everyone.)
For jobs that require thought we do very little to provide space for reflection, and imho that’s dumb.
If you want to be a $250k engineer and fuck around on Netflix waiting for something for 75% of the workday, you’re demonstrating a lack of maturity and professionalism. Or you work for a really dysfunctional place.
If you’re running your own shop, you’re empowered to run it to your needs. That’s awesome. Mine are different.