With 90% of jobs in the world, being late does not matter in the slightest until you start to hit 10+ mins.

I was an engineer for quite a few years, worked a desk job designing things. My job was near a set of train tracks which always had a morning train that showed up between 7:30 to 7:50 every day. And in my area of town traffic could either go smoothly or be a total gridlock. So I had an agreement with my boss where I would show up at 8:20 every day and work until 5:20 (salary). It gave me a consistent time to get to work and I avoided the train and subsequent traffic.

For the first 3 years I never had any issues, no one said anything. Life was fine. But I made some changes to manufacturing that added some frontend paperwork for another department, purely to cleanup some long existing issues we had in our supply chain. Well these people in another department didn’t like this, and I would get daily complaints to HR because they tracked my login times on our messaging service and Outlook. My boss was constantly having to fight them over this, and because he was a spineless push over he gave in and told me to come in at the proper time. Meanwhile, my boss showed up and left whenever he pleased. The benefits of getting the stamp instead of just being in training.

Moral of the story, pick your employers carefully.

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