The Wall Street Journal reports that managers have coined this two-hour period a “dead zone,” with workers using that time to leave work to take care of errands, pick up their children or other personal concerns. Post-pandemic, many workers have ditched the traditional nine-to-five workday in favor of a “triple-peak” workday.
“You have to give everyone space to do it on their terms,” Colette Stallbaumer, the general manager of Microsoft's Future of Work initiative, told the Journal. “Some of them might have babies, some of them have teenagers, some of them might not have kids, but they work best at night.”
“Some are in another time zone and are asynchronous,” Stallbaumer adds. “The key is, they can all be productive, but they have to do it in a way and at a time that's personalized. It’s all over the place in terms of how you can be your original self at work and really contribute.”