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

[Anonymous]

I WFH a lot and I work a lot of partial days in the office. I can usually walk outside in the morning for an hour 2-3 days a week. On rare occasions less, and sometimes more (usually in the summer). Morning can be anything between 8-11.

[Anonymous]

I work a maxiflex job. I just have to get my 8 hours work +30min unpaid lunch in between 06:30 and midnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A few people I know get all their work done for the day in 2-3 hours and then basically do house stuff and work out for the rest of the day, as long as they don't have meetings. They all tend to be individual contributors and not in management positions. They are in amazing shape!

If you're in a management position, you know that your Outlook or Google calendar looks like a barfing rainbow. You're on back-to-back meetings that make it impossible to do something like a long run.

Barfing rainbow. Nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At home I use half an hour to eat, take the dog out, and do a small 5 min chore like load laundry. I rarely have more time to do anything more than that besides quick bathroom breaks

Yall need real jobs lol

"real jobs" require time for thinking and analysis, which is conducive to exercise breaks. Sorry that your bs pushing paper job isn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:maybe the people you see are retired, or work nights or WHATEVER....to assume it's a bunch of 9 to 5ers slacking is dumb "mind your business" is very appropriate here lol

Where in the OP was there even an insinuation of slacking on the clock? There was none.

Are you dense? The OP was dripping with insinuation and judgment.

Only in your imagination, dear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At home I use half an hour to eat, take the dog out, and do a small 5 min chore like load laundry. I rarely have more time to do anything more than that besides quick bathroom breaks

Yall need real jobs lol

"real jobs" require time for thinking and analysis, which is conducive to exercise breaks. Sorry that your bs pushing paper job isn't.

I used to get some of my best computer programming done while out on jogs on the Mall at lunch time.

[Anonymous]

It's called Maxiflex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:maybe the people you see are retired, or work nights or WHATEVER....to assume it's a bunch of 9 to 5ers slacking is dumb "mind your business" is very appropriate here lol

Where in the OP was there even an insinuation of slacking on the clock? There was none.

Are you dense? The OP was dripping with insinuation and judgment.

Only in your imagination, dear.

God you're insufferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At home I use half an hour to eat, take the dog out, and do a small 5 min chore like load laundry. I rarely have more time to do anything more than that besides quick bathroom breaks

Yall need real jobs lol

"real jobs" require time for thinking and analysis, which is conducive to exercise breaks. Sorry that your bs pushing paper job isn't.

I mean sure, there’s the walk or shower eureka moment, but most companies don’t recognize that as “work” time

But if your manager is aware that you are puzzling out new bubble sort algorithms during your bench sets, that’s great. If you are justifying lying to your employer under the guise that any thought about work counts as work, that’s dicier. But I’m in general on the side of workers rights, but your attitude is insufferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At home I use half an hour to eat, take the dog out, and do a small 5 min chore like load laundry. I rarely have more time to do anything more than that besides quick bathroom breaks

Yall need real jobs lol

"real jobs" require time for thinking and analysis, which is conducive to exercise breaks. Sorry that your bs pushing paper job isn't.

I mean sure, there’s the walk or shower eureka moment, but most companies don’t recognize that as “work” time

But if your manager is aware that you are puzzling out new bubble sort algorithms during your bench sets, that’s great. If you are justifying lying to your employer under the guise that any thought about work counts as work, that’s dicier. But I’m in general on the side of workers rights, but your attitude is insufferable.

Are you a micromanager or do you just do low level work? If you do high quality work, are responsive, and get your stuff on time, good managers do not care where, where, or how it gets done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At home I use half an hour to eat, take the dog out, and do a small 5 min chore like load laundry. I rarely have more time to do anything more than that besides quick bathroom breaks

Yall need real jobs lol

"real jobs" require time for thinking and analysis, which is conducive to exercise breaks. Sorry that your bs pushing paper job isn't.

I mean sure, there’s the walk or shower eureka moment, but most companies don’t recognize that as “work” time

But if your manager is aware that you are puzzling out new bubble sort algorithms during your bench sets, that’s great. If you are justifying lying to your employer under the guise that any thought about work counts as work, that’s dicier. But I’m in general on the side of workers rights, but your attitude is insufferable.

Are you a micromanager or do you just do low level work? If you do high quality work, are responsive, and get your stuff on time, good managers do not care where, where, or how it gets done.

if you are paid by a project basis, as a 1099 employee, sure that’s fine. But most people are paid for full time work, and expectation is if you get your work done early or have extra free time, you will be a professional and take initiative to improve or develop on the business. Not to get the work done and kick back at the gym spa.


But again, yes if the managers are aware that you only do 3 hours of normal “productive” work, and don’t care, that’s great. As long as you aren’t justifying deception, it’s all fair.

[Anonymous]

My job is fully remote and everyone works roughly 9-6 their local time but the corporate culture is fine with breaks you just have to let people know you’re away. People block their schedules for meals, running, appointments, touching grass after too many meetings, whatever. I really appreciate the transparency and chill around timekeeping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At home I use half an hour to eat, take the dog out, and do a small 5 min chore like load laundry. I rarely have more time to do anything more than that besides quick bathroom breaks

Yall need real jobs lol

"real jobs" require time for thinking and analysis, which is conducive to exercise breaks. Sorry that your bs pushing paper job isn't.

I mean sure, there’s the walk or shower eureka moment, but most companies don’t recognize that as “work” time

But if your manager is aware that you are puzzling out new bubble sort algorithms during your bench sets, that’s great. If you are justifying lying to your employer under the guise that any thought about work counts as work, that’s dicier. But I’m in general on the side of workers rights, but your attitude is insufferable.

Are you a micromanager or do you just do low level work? If you do high quality work, are responsive, and get your stuff on time, good managers do not care where, where, or how it gets done.

if you are paid by a project basis, as a 1099 employee, sure that’s fine. But most people are paid for full time work, and expectation is if you get your work done early or have extra free time, you will be a professional and take initiative to improve or develop on the business. Not to get the work done and kick back at the gym spa.


But again, yes if the managers are aware that you only do 3 hours of normal “productive” work, and don’t care, that’s great. As long as you aren’t justifying deception, it’s all fair.

This is where you’re wrong. Most people don’t work for a company where there is extra work sitting around, or an interest in an employee trying to “improve or develop on the business.” It should be like this but in reality it doesn’t work this way. I can see how it could work this way at a startup or smaller company. However, at a larger company or government agency this really isn’t encouraged and will likely get you in trouble.

40 hours is an arbitrary number and besides being available 40 hours, the expectation is typically that an employee performs his or her job and deliverables on time. From a common sense perspective this makes sense since what takes one employee 10 hours could take another employee 30.

[Anonymous]

Yes I work remotely- I walk with friends/neighbors who also work from home. I track my hours and I work more than I am required. When I was in the office, I also walked at lunch time.

[Anonymous]

I work mostly in office but WFH a day a week. I will take a walk during the day. (I barely leave my desk at the office.)