A few days ago, I put up a post on my company website, about the availability of co working space at our office in Gurgaon. I received a couple of enquires from folks who were interested in sharing space but it didn’t work out for any of them.
All of them were startups. And almost all of them wanted 24×7 access to code through night and day, weekends included.
My company is slightly more than a year old and I consider it to still be in a ‘startup’ mode.
However, right from day 1, I had taken a stance that we would work regular hours and 5 days a week and hence my office timings are 10am to 7pm, Mon to Fri. (the main reason why it didnt work for the startups)
The entire experience had me questioning myself a bit about if I was doing the right thing instead of working almost 24×7 which seems to be di rigueur these days for a startup.
Ofcourse, I do end up working much longer hours and on most Saturdays but I have a notional sense of freedom about the fact that I can take a weekend trip whenever I want to.
So here is question for everyone: What are your ‘office timings’ and how many hours in a week do you usually end up working ? Also do you officially work on Saturdays and Sundays ?