9 to 5 is stuck in our heads as the typical workday. I’m not sure if it’s Dolly Parton’s song and 1980 smash hit movie that burned this into our psyche but 8 hours is what we expect to spend at work. I actually think, for the last few decades, it is probably closer to 8 to 5. But either way, it’s nice to see this work-day idea dying off, at least in the office environment (retail and consumer services like restaurants don’t fit well in this description). Consider these things:

• Most professional adults don’t need to be babysat at work by a manager since tablets, smartphones, and collaboration software (dropbox, SharePoint, Skype, Salesforce,…) make communication and access to work a 24/7 option;
• People are not spending all their time at work working anyway. A lot of the time there just aren’t things that need to be done at the…