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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/paperanddoodlesco on 2025-09-05 12:10:07+00:00.
So this happened a while ago before remote work was even a concept (think 2008ish). I was working at a large media agency and for anyone who knows agency work, we typically work around our client's schedule - or at least as best as possible. We were based in NYC but had CA clients, so it was pretty standard that we'd get in at 10am and leave 7/8pm (if you stayed to 9pm, you could take a car service home so we sometimes just did that - most of us were in our 20s so no big deal!).
When a new CEO started, he was used to working in Europe and hated that we weren't in the office at 8am and forced a company policy that we had to be in the office from 8am-5pm.
We of course followed the rules because who wouldn't want to leave at 5?!
Let's just say the policy was lifted within 2 weeks when our west coast clients couldn't get in touch with us!