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Tends to select for agreeableness. I deeply care about my work but I don't agree that it has to be done 9 to 5.
Agreeableness sounds like something to optimize for when selectig prospective employees as well.
I have the opposite problem. My energy peaks in the mid-morning, which my workplace has set aside for meetings (partly because we have team members in an earlier time zone, and partly because the manager who set it up that way had a late evening energy peak). So by the time I have an uninterrupted stretch of time, I’m often too drained to really get much done.
I wake up 5 am, work until 11 am and that was the day besides maybe some meetings. It works well; 4 hours of quiet coding, 2 hours working together on code and then maybe 30-60 minutes in management meetings. I have tried different setups but my peak is 7-10; it doesn’t really matter when I slept or how etc. I used to be a night owl and I tried normal hours (9-5); nothing is as productive as what I currently do.