When Steve Smith joined Intel 20 years ago, engineers at the world’s biggest semiconductor company were expected to be at their desks from before 8am to at least 5pm.
“You were expected to be there so people could physically find you if they needed to ask you a question,” he recalls. Today, the vice-president of operations in Intel’s desktop platforms group, which designs and builds the microprocessors that power most personal computers, rarely sees another member of his team.
