When you work from home, are you able to go on long runs or walks?

[Anonymous]

I walk on calls with a couple coworkers. We’re all on the leadership team and chained to our desks for zoom meetings all day and have collectively decided that it’s better for our mental health, and productivity, to save some conversations for walking. We regularly walk together when we’re in person too.

I also will occasionally walk/run at other times. I work long hours but have a lot of autonomy. I used to run once a week with a friend and would start work a little late that day.

In 2023 I was a lowly cog working in a cubicle but would regularly go to the gym with a group of coworkers at lunch, including my boss so this isn’t exactly new to WAH. As long as we hit our billable hours, nobody cared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many people in my UMC neighborhood work jobs that are “on” 24/7, which actually means you have more flexibility to fit in a run between meetings or take a call while taking a long walk. Shrugs. I get that this aggravates the standard 9-5 MC set to no end, but it’s just one of the “perks” of working all the damn time.

This.

+1. This describes me DH - he is a small law from partner. He simultaneously has no boss and yet all his clients are his bosses. It’s good and bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Besides the hour for lunch that some workers get regardless of their work location, a lot of people who WFH are saving 30, 60, 90 minutes one-way not commuting and so instead of commuting 7:30-8:30 am they might starting their workday at 7:30am and then take an hour off later. Or if they used to have to leave their office at 4:30 or 5:00 pm, now they might take an hour out of the day to exercise but then work until 6pm. MYOB.

This is the answer for many people. I run early, but I log in around 7:00 or 7:15 (after my hour run) and probably do my last work pretty late in the evening, around 9 or 10 pm. Lots of breaks in between. I could totally run midday, but my preference is to do it early.