There is a junior who worked at 12am. I said to him not to overwork if he has lots of todo's. Agree?

yes, no overtime fo junior
A well rested junior is a well learning and improving junior.

If a junior needs to work overtime, there's something seriously wrong with the timelines.

That list of todos doesn't shrink because you got to the end of it, it's just a new list waiting for you.

At what time did he start though? Maybe junior just couldn't get in the mood to work until 6pm.

Wish certain Assholes trying to drive straight people out of the workforce would agree with this sensible outlook

So "12am" is the American way to say midnight? Or noon? Is this about skipping lunch breaks, working overtime at night, or simply taking the freedom of flexible timing instead of conservative office-hours-work-vs-life-balance?

Sorry to act naive, but as a non-native speaker, my first thought was "12am" would be 12:00 (thus noon / mid-day), second thought (when reading the comments) wondering that it probably means midnight.

@fraktalisman it confuses us too. its midnight

@fraktalisman I think.
I'd think it would be noon personally.

12am is midnight, think of 24 hour clock, it's 00:00 which is first minute of the new day, so it's the morning.

I agree with the op, not sure why the post is tagged LinkedIn though.

Even if a junior, or indeed any employee loves their job so much that they want to work 7am to midnight, the employer has a duty of care to the employee, and a burnt out junior is no good to anyone.

As a guy who enjoys working odd hours and has a job that lets me, I'd say it's only a problem if it's habitual and they're going past their allotted work hours for the day.

To-dos or not, I wouldn't accept a junior working these hours. Either they're doing that instead of working normal hours, which isn't great as they need to be available in normal hours for meetings / contact / etc. - or they're doing that work as well as normal hours, in which case they need to be told that level of work is unacceptable.

@jespersh not sure if he's learning, he had 12 tasks he was working on simultaneously at that time tho

@fraktalisman somewhere in google said that 12am is midnight, i'm not even american

@nitnip it's corporate environment, but WFH, we are expected to work around 9 - 5.

@nibor you know, that linkedin guy who always end their post with "Agree?"

@curiousjoe WFH being the key words. I'm also expected to work with that schedule but I'm not a morning person at all. Sometimes I just start and finish later.

Reading the rest of your comments though, that doesn't seem to be the case for the junior. 12 tasks is way too much.