Using weekend to travel for work

[Anonymous]

Is it common for employers to schedule work events starting Monday morning in a different state so that employees need to use their private time (weekend) to travel for a work obligation?

[Anonymous]

If so, you usually get Friday off or some other offset.

I work for a global Fortune 500 company. We have some executives who prefer not to travel on Sunday, so we usually do Monday afternoon start or a Tuesday through Thursday meeting.

[Anonymous]

Same as first response. We take it back at another time.

[Anonymous]

Yes Monday morning start times are common, but you get the weekend day back as comp time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes Monday morning start times are common, but you get the weekend day back as comp time.

+1 This is how my company does it

[Anonymous]

Ideally they should give you time off elsewhere. For me, it hasn’t always happened that way or sometimes I’ve been told to take time off at my convenience within a certain time band and there isn’t been a good time due to work delivery schedules

[Anonymous]

Yes, we earn a comp day for 4 hours or more of work or travel on a Saturday or Sunday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes Monday morning start times are common, but you get the weekend day back as comp time.

We don't have a lot of travel but when I have had to travel on the weekend for work, there was no official comp time. If anything travel makes week before more hectic so it would be hard to take extra comp time that week. I guess in theory you could ask for a comp day, but we get a generous amount of vacation days and more people don't take all their vacation days anyway.

[Anonymous]

We travel often for work that starts Friday or Saturday. For travel that lasts 2+ week travel can take 1 day off.

[Anonymous]

Thanks all. No comp time or time off here.

OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks all. No comp time or time off here.

OP

Time to find a new job then

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks all. No comp time or time off here.

OP

I was at a job like that once, and frankly, I just took the time off. If I spent four hours working on a weekend, I didn't work Friday afternoon. I didn't announce it draw attention to it, I just didn't work. No one ever really noticed--Friday afternoon is not generally a meeting-heavy time in our industry. Can you do something similar?

[Anonymous]

In the govt it is common to get comp time.

In private world no. I mean I worked billable hours for years mandatory 40 hours.

I don’t understand how comp tone would even work. I often have trips LA, Seattle, how can I take flights that long not on weekend.

[Anonymous]

I'm a fed and yes I get comp time if that happens. My spouse who works for a private company also does, though it's less regimented than mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes Monday morning start times are common, but you get the weekend day back as comp time.

Same here.