Flagon: We build software in the open.

We care about what you make, not how many hours you sat at a desk making it. This page is how we think about time, the working kind and the off kind, and why we treat rest as part of the job rather than a reward for finishing it.

Hours: outcomes, not clock-watching

There's no timesheet and nobody counting your green dot. We hired you to do good work and to know when it's done, not to perform being busy for eight hours. Some days that's ten hours because you're deep in something and don't want to stop. Some days it's four because the work is finished and the rest is padding.

What matters is that the work is good, that the people who depend on you can, and that you're honest when something's slipping. See how we work for the mechanics of that. Beyond that, we trust you to run your own day.

Async so timezones don't trap you

We're remote-first and async by default, and a big reason is that we never want your calendar to be hostage to someone else's timezone. You shouldn't have to be awake at 2am for a meeting, and you shouldn't have to live inside a rigid block of "core hours" that happens to suit headquarters, because there is no headquarters. Write things down, let people pick them up when they're awake, and stop treating instant replies as a virtue.

Real rest, actually taken

"Unlimited PTO" sounds generous and usually isn't. With no number, nobody knows what's okay, so people take less, not more, and the ones who most need a break are the ones who feel guiltiest about it. It quietly turns time off into a thing you have to justify.

We're doing the opposite. We want a sane minimum that people actually take: a real floor, not a vague ceiling. The point of a floor is that it's not optional: you're expected to hit it, and if you're not, that's a problem to fix, not willpower to admire.

Rest is not a reward

Time off isn't something you earn by burning out first. It's maintenance on the person doing the work. We'd rather you take the break before you need it than after you've cracked.

How it works: a generous paid floor that we expect you to actually take, plus more whenever you genuinely need it. The specific number lives in your offer, where it's a real commitment rather than a marketing line.

Sick days are just off

If you're sick, stop working. Rest, get better, come back when you're well. You don't need a doctor's note, you don't need to apologize, and you don't need to half-work through it to prove something. A half-present sick person helps no one and gets everyone else sick. This covers the mind too: a day when your head isn't in it is a fine day to step back.

The long game with your energy

We're optimizing for still being here, and still enjoying this, years from now. That's one of our values, and it applies to people as much as products. Hustle-until-you-break is a bad trade. It looks like speed and it's actually debt: you borrow next month's energy to make this week look busy, and eventually the bill comes due as burnout, sloppy work, and good people leaving.

Sustainable pace isn't the slow option. It's the one that's still shipping good work when the sprinters have quit. Work hard, then genuinely stop. Both parts matter.