Proposal for Working Hours/Days

Working Days:
Monday to Friday to be the official working days for all Full Time Devtek Employees.
Timings:
12:00 PM to 9:00 PM to be the official working hours of Devtek for all Full Time Employees and
everyone is expected to abide by these timings. One (1) hour of lunch break can be availed
during this time. If anyone is taking a long break during the said working hours, then they can
compensate those hours either before 12:00 PM or after 9:00 PM. Any such absence needs to
be informed prior to the team lead and on Teams.
All internal meetings/discussions needs to be scheduled in between these time only. (Only
Sprint Planning Meeting is an exception to this)
Part Time Employees are expected to respect timings of their Full Time Colleagues and do not
schedule any meetings/discussions/support from them after 9:00 PM.
Off Days:
Saturday & Sunday will be completely off for all Full Time Employees.
Sprint Cycle Adjustment: (For WhiteOaks Team)
Monday will be the Day 1 of Sprint.
From Monday-Friday, development team will work on stories/bugs and by Friday EOD push
everything to QA environment.
From the next Monday-Wednesday, QA team will run functional tests on sprint stories and
developers will do bug fixing on QA environment
Thursday-Friday, team will run regression on QA environment and we will deploy on Pre-Prod
environment after verification. We will only carry out the production deployment on Monday
morning.
Friday will also be the Sprint Planning Day for the next sprint. Expected Timings can be 7:00 to
9:00 PM.
Story grooming session can be conducted twice a week (Monday & Wednesday). 7:00 PM to
9:00 PM timeslot can be utilized for this activity.
Feedback
[10/27 9:52 PM] Kaleem Haider

I have a comment for day to day timings that we try to have it 1 - 10 PM. Just to increase overlap
between onshore and offshore.

[10/27 9:59 PM] Sajjad Ahmed

Yea 1pm to 10pm PKT sounds good. My only concern is that during this time we will have dinner as
well. So folks might be just taking dinner break at 9pm anyways

[10/27 10:55 PM] Kaleem Haider

Dinner break is normally late in most cases

[10/27 10:57 PM] Kaleem Haider

But we need to take care of the availability and leaves count of team members also so they respect
the shared quota of leaves

I would go for 1 to 10 or 2 to 11 just to have more overlap of offshore and onshore

Because we will have to provide support to some of the urgent client queries so that max overlap will
help

[10/28 5:19 AM] Mariam Basit

Kaleem Haider

I have a comment for day to day timings that we try to have it 1 - 10 PM. Just to increase overlap
between onshore and offshore.

I think 9 PM is a reasonable time if we are trying to ensure work/life balance. We already have
around 5 hours of overlapping with US/hours and client queries can be handled in those hours. For
more urgent queries we can always make an exception. By pushing the time to 10 or 11 PM actually
kills the purpose of work/life balance as individuals will be working all day and left with no family
time which was the main concern for most of the Full Timers.
[10/28 5:21 AM] Mariam Basit
Kaleem Haider

But we need to take care of the availability and leaves count of team members also so they respect
the shared quota of leaves

Yes that's something that needs to be added as well. We need to somehow manage the leave counts
as well so that it can be fair usage.

[10/28 5:24 AM] Mariam Basit

Kaleem Haider

Because we will have to provide support to some of the urgent client queries so that max overlap will
help

That can be still provided in between 5:00 to 9:00 PM. We also have PTs who can be reached after
this time. For urgent queries we can even make an exception. The point is if we are trying to change
late sitting culture then 11 PM or 10 PM as regular timing is still late for most of the people and
actually brings work/life balance to zero.