Sheryl Sandberg: Daily Routine

Sheryl Sandberg once worked 12-hour days—now she runs on early mornings, tight schedules, and a 5:30pm hard stop to be with family.

Before she was the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and one of the most influential and powerful women in the tech world, Sheryl Sandberg was a Google executive, working on developing Google’s ad business and regularly putting in long hours everyday, from 7am to 7pm.

According to a 2017 Bloomberg article, after Sandberg welcomed her first child, she started sneaking out of Google’s office early, “sometimes placing a decoy jacket on her chair, leaving the light on at her desk, or scheduling afternoon meetings in other buildings so her colleagues wouldn’t see her leave.”