Cypress has had an 8am policy since our founding in 1982. We made a reasoned decision at that time to copy Intel’s 8am policy (but not their requirement for people who arrived after 8:10am to sign in). We believe this policy is critical to get people to start cross-functional meetings promptly at the beginning of the day. Right now, we have excellent adherence to the 8am policy and do not want to abandon it.
Although Spansion EVPs and senior managers get to work early (often well before 8am), a majority of Spansion employees appear to arrive at a later time, perhaps 9:00am (when I had my first all-hands meeting at Spansion, I was asked to start the meeting at 9:30am).
Last Wednesday in my staff meeting, we had a “spirited” but rambling debate on the 8am policy. Before I go into the details of that (very typically imprecise) debate, I should first explain what the term “8am policy” means.
It is only about starting the day together; it is not about creating a shift. It does not even mean that everyone has to come to work at 8am. Obviously, Cypress, like most other manufacturing companies, has shifts where people who work from 3:00pm to 3:00am are obviously not expected to come to work at 8am in the morning. In addition to a formal shift structure, there are individuals in our planning group have a custom shift structure designed to allow them maximum overlap with a given Cypress site if that is there primary job. For example, we have planners in San Jose who work from 4:00pm to midnight in order for them to deal with our CML manufacturing site in the Philippines [JRM fact-check].
The assumed shift structure I mentioned above does not exist in reality, as the fact check email below indicates:
Cypress has had an 8am policy since our founding in 1982. We made a reasoned decision at that time to copy Intel’s 8am policy (but not their requirement for people who arrived after 8:10am to sign in). We believe this policy is critical to get people to start cross-functional meetings promptly at the beginning of the day. Right now, we have excellent adherence to the 8am policy and do not want to abandon it.
Although Spansion EVPs and senior managers get to work early (often well before 8am), a majority of Spansion employees appear to arrive at a later time, perhaps 9:00am (when I had my first all-hands meeting at Spansion, I was asked to start the meeting at 9:30am).
Last Wednesday in my staff meeting, we had a “spirited” but rambling debate on the 8am policy. Before I go into the details of that (very typically imprecise) debate, I should first explain what the term “8am policy” means.
It is only about starting the day together; it is not about creating a shift. It does not even mean that everyone has to come to work at 8am. Obviously, Cypress, like most other manufacturing companies, has shifts where people who work from 3:00pm to 3:00am are obviously not expected to come to work at 8am in the morning. In addition to a formal shift structure, there are individuals in our planning group have a custom shift structure designed to allow them maximum overlap with a given Cypress site if that is there primary job. For example, we have planners in San Jose who work from 4:00pm to midnight in order for them to deal with our CML manufacturing site in the Philippines [JRM fact-check].
The assumed shift structure I mentioned above does not exist in reality, as the fact check email below indicates:
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