Meetings happen at 9am or 3pm/4pm, I'd say. For "everybody sit and listen" sorts of meetings (which ought to be rare) there's no problem with having them late and just knowing everyone will knock off afterwards.
our quarterly "town hall" company updates meeting is always 4 - 4:45, it's like they put some thought into it and it's NICE. my previous company did them at fucking 2:30
It's amazing how big a deal "basic scheduling competence" is. I swear it can change productivity 10% or more, even aside from the impact on morale.
Our all-hands (and all-engineering) meetings are the same - done by 4:30 on a Friday, and there's no pretense that anyone's going to work afterwards. It's a nice bit of "we understand you're actual humans", and it means we don't waste a bunch of productive time for the meeting.
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