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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP some of this is on you. Has management told you, you must be at your house from 9 to 5?

I work from home a lot too, but can manage my schedule. Yes, people can see when i've been inactive during the day; they can also see that I was on at 6 am this morning and when I'm on after I put the kids down too. That's how my work culture is though.

Just make sure you aren't putting more on yourself than you have to. I just say "hey, running to a dr. appointment" or running a quick errand be back, and people don't care. [/quote]

Unfortunately, I have been told that yes, I need to be reachable during regular business hours.  I used to have a very flexible schedule where I would work at 5am, 10pm, etc.  Everyone did so, and it wasn't a problem.  But things have changed and that is no longer the case.  I believe it is due to many people who aren't used to working in/managing remote teams suddenly managing/working in a remote team.  But that's another story for another day.

The Outlook thing is crazy. Because much of the company works remotely, there are many conference calls.  Sometimes the conversation goes along the lines of "Hey can you get such and such to jump on real quick?  Wait--where are they? They have been inactive for 20 minutes!"  Even though, you know, such and such had no idea someone wanted them to jump onto a call.  Also, my department leadership has decided that we all need to be available at all times during the workday, unlike other departments where "no one ever knows where they are or what they are doing!"

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