re: Forbes Piece: Flexible Work Was The Promise. The Infinite Workday Is The Reality

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One thing I’ve found that does irk me is some high school teachers and college professors have used this technology of availability to push things on students that we didn’t have to deal with when I was in school. Didn’t have to turn in some assignment online by 11:59pm. Certainly not in high school. So I feel bad for kids who end up with teachers and professors who make it tough for them to unplug and just handle after school hours shite the way we did.

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Kids, both HS and college are given multiple days, even weeks advance notice when assignments are due. The teacher/professor's give them a deadline by 11:59 cutoff time to make students aware that if assignments aren't submitted by the cutoff, they get a zero for the assignment. If a student dicks around til the last minute, it's on the student, not the teacher.

Teachers have made it exponentially easier for students, by giving them fair warning and ample time to complete assignments.

I’ve been WFH full time since 2018 and off and on between 2000-2012. My current job is an hourly paid plus commission sales position where I am not permitted overtime. So I’m done after 8 hours daily and I don’t fret about what I haven’t gotten to each day.

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If you're working from your house and have a cell phone, you're always available.

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I have an app on my phone for my work number, no calls or text come through the app after working hours or on weekends. So that problem can be solved for calls.

I personally love working from home and will never return to an office if I can avoid it. I also worked remote prior to Covid, so my last two jobs I was hired as a remote worker and never even had an office in the same state. Never even met my boss at this job.

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I am not required to make my cell phone public in the directory. Therefore the only work calls I get are truly emergencies. It's worth not having a subsidized phone. Your corporate policies may vary.

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Yeah…the nature of what I do, subsidized or not, my cell has to be available.

Been fully remote for the last 10 years and I usually work by my pool or office most days. Got a nice monitor set up there. I work about 9-10 hours a day but honestly I rather do that than work 9 hours and spend 2 hours in traffic like the average American. I get to walk my 2 dogs 3x a day, I do a Barrys class and take a 30min to 1 hour nap every day.

Must suck going to the refinery and offshore everyday to almost die to make your coin.

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Must suck going to the refinery and offshore to almost die to make your coin.

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Talking to people like this isn’t very inclusive

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I work mostly remote and try to handle emails and other stuff when lever they come up. I also may be found out on a walk at 2:00 in the afternoon on a nice day. The flexibility goes both ways and I like it

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This. I’m more likely to answer a phone call at 7pm if I was tidying up my shop for 30 mins at 2pm. But I also consider myself a good employee. I’m in the field doing trainings 50% of the time and when I’m not in the field I’m either entering data from when I was or on meetings preparing for when I go back out. My entire team is this way. Corporate ordered everyone back to the office in Feb. but since we’re remote we were given an exception. Being in an office would do me no good because most of the managers I deal with are located at other HQ’s around the state anyways. I start anywhere from 5am-8am and end between 4pm-7pm. It’s all about the give and take.

My wife is hybrid. She’s a horrible WFH employee. I can’t tell you how many complete seasons of different shows she’s watched in between her afternoon naps. It honestly blows my mind. I would have fired her a long time ago.

I’m in sales. I have a home office I designed and love, but we don’t have anything remotely close to a company office locally.

My wife works from home (No schedule, can do her work whenever she pleases) and watches the 1.5 year old. I can’t get shite done between the two of them. Most days I prefer finding a random chair or sitting in my truck at the account I’m covering for the day to get any actual real work done. Even on slow days, when I could stay home all day, I’ll just go pop in on accounts to get out of the house.

ETA - my days start at 6am and can end anywhere from 10am to 12pm depending on the day. I’ll answer emails any time any place. That doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is that no one seems to have boundaries with cell phones anymore. Nothing drives me more insane than a coworker calling me at 10pm, thinking it’s an emergency, only to answer and get asked about something we spoke about earlier in day in person, over text, or in an email. It’s insanity to me.

I thought Trump was going to ban working from home
at least that's what bedpan was telling us

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frick the infinite work day. God it feels so good to take vacation and leave your phone on the night stand and not look at it until the end of the day

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This is my plan for the 4th of July week at the cottage, I am keeping the laptop off. Helps that the reception is absolute arse and the internet is flaky.