Hours and remote work
Hours and remote work
The hybrid pattern
Daisy's default is hybrid: Tuesday through Thursday in the office, with Monday and Friday open for remote work for most roles. Engineering is remote-friendly beyond that if a role and a manager agree it works, but the Tuesday–Thursday in-office days are shared across the whole company on purpose — those are the days meetings, team lunches, and the kind of hallway conversation that doesn't happen over Slack actually get to happen. See "Your first day" for what a Tuesday–Thursday start looks like versus a fully remote one.
Core hours
Daisy's office is on Central Time, and the whole company shares core hours of 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. CT — the window everyone is expected to be reachable and meeting-able, in office or not. Outside that window, start and end your day when it makes sense for you and your team; a lot of people here shift earlier or later around school pickups, gym time, or just personal preference, and nobody's tracking exactly when you logged on.
Timekeeping, if you're non-exempt
If your role is classified non-exempt — see "Pay and payroll" for what that means — you're required to record your actual hours worked in Gusto, not just show up during core hours. Log your time daily rather than reconstructing a week from memory on Friday; federal law requires an accurate record of non-exempt hours, and Daisy takes that seriously even though most days it's routine. Exempt employees don't clock hours — you're paid for the job, not the hours it took.
Working asynchronously
With people in and out of the office on different days, Daisy leans on writing things down. Decisions get a Notion doc, not just a meeting; Jira tickets carry enough context that someone picking one up mid-week doesn't need to track down the person who wrote it. If you're remote on a given day, that's not a lesser day — it just means defaulting to a Slack thread or a doc comment instead of a tap on the shoulder, and not expecting an instant reply outside core hours.
Time zones and travel
Most of Daisy is on Central Time, but if you're working with teammates elsewhere, or you're traveling — see "Travel and expenses" — keep meetings inside core hours in your time zone where you can, and note your working hours in your calendar so people scheduling across zones aren't guessing.
If the pattern isn't working
If Tuesday–Thursday genuinely conflicts with something in your life, talk to your manager. Hybrid is the default, not a rule enforced for its own sake, and there's more room to adjust it than the default might suggest.