Core Hours
Hotjar is a remote, flexible working environment. We do not control nor monitor working hours. Instead, we expect everyone to give their best to make Hotjar succeed – and we trust entirely in each other to do so. We work a 40-hour week, but outside of core hours, you can plan your time and productivity as you wish (but please coordinate this with your team).
We suggest team members overlap their ‘online availability’ time to maximize team collaboration. Online availability refers to your ‘online’ time on Slack and ‘availability’ for calls with colleagues on Hangouts. For this reason, we require, at minimum, you to be ‘available’ every day between 2 pm–5 pm CET.
If you are busy with errands or have an appointment during the day, you are free not to be available. Please notify your team if you plan on taking an unusually long break during the day.
It is your responsibility to always have a good internet connection and a high-quality headset (it must be a headset) during your ‘online availability’ times.
Weekly Structure
To better align our focus/meeting/planning hours across all teams and maximize opportunities for communication, we have set out rough guidelines to structure our working week. These guidelines are not set in stone but will help us schedule calls and collaborate better. All team members are free to set out their work week, keeping in mind the guidelines set out below:
Mondays | Call heavy days! We have our planning meetings, 1-1s, sync calls, etc., on Monday. People will likely be in meetings for most of the day, so they might be a bit slower when responding to messages. |
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Tuesdays | Focus days! Tuesdays are generally the most productive working days of the week. A focus day on Tuesday allows each team member to focus more on their sprints. We try to avoid having regularly scheduled meetings on Tuesdays unless they are project-centric. This doesn't mean that communication or cross-team collaboration is off the table - we can't work without speaking to each other, nor do we want to encourage this! Other team members are less likely to be tied up in meetings on Tuesdays. |
Wednesdays | No meeting Wednesdays! We never have scheduled calls on Wednesdays unless it is an emergency. People will jump on quick calls as necessary to collaborate and still communicate via Slack / Email. |
Thursdays + Fridays | All our 'big' meetings are scheduled for these days - weekly demos, monthly meetings, Leadership planning, etc. How call-busy people are will depend on the week we are in during the month. |
