of folks working and sending emails between midnight and 3AM in the morning. They show up at work at 11AM leave at 4PM, are not seen in their cubicles in the intervening period. They are very much physically located in the US and not in any other time zone. And this is not a one-off thingy .. I have seen this at play for the last 2-3 years. And only a few do it. Why?
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Late evening emails are surely the sign of somebody working real late. Dedicated employee on the up and up !
Happens at all levels. My Snr Dir would have a habit of emailing a monthly report at early hours (like 5AM) on a Saturday. You see, he was oh so busy running a world class team he never had a moment to email it Friday afternoon or Monday morning. How do I know ? So happens I worked for the VP elsewhere before Q and he asked me about it one time, "whats this qualcomm thing about sending out emails at dawn on Saturdays ?"
You can also call is "work life balance" Q-style ha ha ha
they have given their login passwork to a server farm in south asia which emails on their behaf fer small fee...3 am local time is 5 pm sum where find oot as you smart engineers
I have seen few of this type ,who pretend to be first comers to office but it was not for the love of work but to drop off their kids to school & then they leave at 11am to pick their kids back from school & you will never find them in office or labs the entire day , only see their emails late at night again that too not on their own work but jumping on someone else email!
Entire dept & VP knows but nobody take any action for this unscrupulous person for several years.
It is simply a strategy for review feedback, if you send emails late at night and weekends, this creates the impression you are a dedicated employee.
What division or building? I have seen this post in the past.
I had a coworker in QCT who was... “sleep efficient”. I don’t think he could sleep more than five hours at a time without taking something. Current observations: some suffer from insomnia from lack of exercise and bad caffeine management, others can’t sit down to get work done until their kids are in bed.
I just remember the heartburn I would get every night from not taking care of myself..
Outlook has a feature, where you can delay when an email is actually sent. I think it’s just a brown-nose maneuver...
When I used to do a lot of “PowerPoint engineering” for “management”, I’d often set outlook to send the emails about an hour after I had left the office. That way, I wouldn’t appear online and get thrashed over the reports.
Why don't you ask them Sherlock. Maybe before you do that, ascertain whether their work getting done, my good man.