Im probably of the same age, and you are wrong in this one: As long as the objectives with which he is tasked for are fulfilled and he gets along with people, it does not matter absolute zit whether he comes early, leaves early, wears cargo pants, has punk hair, or outright has wings and commutes to work flying about in the air.

Organizations need to get out of the 19th century workplace mindset which was inherited from earlier aristocratic institutions.