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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been a consultant for 15+ years.  Only the government allows billing travel time.  That said, any reasonable private company understand this and respects if you choose the higher cost flight for direct/timing/etc.  If you arent billing your time then book the more expensive, direct flight out of convenience.  [/quote]

I have worked for a startup, a PR firm, a small non profit, and a large international organization and I have never even heard of the expectation that one would travel on their own time. [/quote]

I’ve worked at a bunch of different places. I’m curious what everyone is defining as ‘your own time’. If I need to be someplace by 10am, I’ll catch a 6am flight. If I need to be someplace at 8am, I’ll take the 5pm flight the night before.  I don’t view this as ‘my own time’. Traveling Sunday PM or Friday PM - yes. Hate it and avoid it if at all possible. Are you suggesting that you wouldn’t book a flight before 8am or that arrived after 5pm?  [/quote]

PP here. No, of course I would fly on a Sunday, Monday, Saturday, 3am, 11pm... I prefer not to travel during the weekends and holidays, but I make it up with flextime (e.g. taking Fridays off), or coming into work late, or asking for a comp leave day or two (e.g. if traveling for work over a weekend).[/quote]

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