{"id":39081,"date":"2023-10-20T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/why-this-tech-company-makes-its-team-come-in-at-9-06am-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:00:40","slug":"why-this-tech-company-makes-its-team-come-in-at-9-06am-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/why-this-tech-company-makes-its-team-come-in-at-9-06am-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this tech company makes its team come in at 9.06am – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Getting into work at 9.06am might have some workers sweating, worried they might be late for an early morning meeting or an important deadline.<\/p>\n

Sure, it can be chalked up to some unfortunate traffic, or a busy coffee shop, but for many getting in six minutes earlier can put your mind at ease<\/p>\n

But for one American tech company, the unusually specific time of 9.06am is the perfect time to start the day.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0BBC<\/em> reports<\/a>\u00a0at software and services company Pivotal Software, founder and chief executive Rob Mee carefully calculated the best time to get his programmers in and working, noting that if \u201cleft to their own devices\u201d they could come in at 10am.<\/p>\n

Read more: Why this US startup is encouraging its workers to not eat for 32 hours<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd if they haven\u2019t eaten adequately they will be hungry by 11am, so they\u2019ll stop for food, which then makes the afternoon too long. It is not very efficient,\u201d Mee told BBC<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

All employees at Pivotal\u2019s offices get a free breakfast before 9.06am, but as soon as the clock ticks over, a gong is rung and the day begins.<\/p>\n

Workers all participate in a stand-up meeting for five to ten minutes, then they all get to work with no distractions for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

The overly specific time of 9.06am is no accident, with Mee doing some serious thinking around the optimal time to start the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought that if we made it 9am, developers psyching themselves up for the day would think, \u2018well if it is 9am I\u2019ll be late\u2019,\u201d Mee told BBC.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo then we thought, \u2018why don\u2019t we make it 9.05am\u2019, but that is too precise, as programmers don\u2019t like over-optimising, so we went with 9.06am. Then it became something fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Come the end of the day, all workers clock off at 6.00pm to stop programmers working late into the night and burning themselves out.<\/p>\n

Although you may not know Pivotal, the company is valued at $US2.8 billion ($3.7 billion), and it counts Bloomberg, eBay,\u00a0and Twitter among its clients.<\/p>\n

The company offers intensive programming \u201cbootcamp\u201d sessions to train other company\u2019s staff to program better.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published on SmartCompany<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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