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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I try to keep my meetings light on both Mondays and Fridays (my wfh days) so I can do laundry, errands and organizational stuff before/after the weekend.[/quote]This is why they called RTO[/quote]

And rightly so.[/quote]

Exactly. To think that it’s ok to get pedicures, shoppings and other errands done while working from home is outrageous. If you want to be getting that six figure salary, your butt better be in the office all day M-F. Not shopping at Costco while on “conference call”. [/quote]

Hi boomer. I see you never made it past middle management in your career.[/quote]

I’m the PP who runs errands, a millennial, and actually in middle management. I think this poster never made it out of entry-level jobs where you do, in fact, need your butt in the seat and instant responsiveness.[/quote]

And yet without those people you would not have your easy remote jobs of “managers”[/quote]

Entry-level / performer jobs are critical, do indeed require butt-in-seat and facetime, and are a great learning experience. Typically they are taken by younger people during a time in their lives when they don’t have family responsibilities and the 9-5 requirement  isn’t a huge hardship. I myself put in my dues for many years.

What I am realizing many people on this thread don’t understand is that some of us eventually graduate to more thinking-type roles. We are evaluated based on how well we solve client problems, navigate the org internally, develop our team, etc. This thinking often happens out of 9-5 and if you count up the number of hours I actually spend thinking about work (including logging in at night when needed), it’s waaaaaay more than 40! So I have no qualms about taking a few of those hours back during critical portions of the day/week in order to set up a great work-life balance for myself. It meaningfully improves my job and life satisfaction which makes me do even better at work, so my employer also benefits.

I realize you’ll just reply to this long post with a snarky one-liner, but it’s actually  meant for other women who are interested in increasing their work-life balance. The fact that some WFHers  cheat their org by moving their mouse around in between grocery run and school pick-up has no bearing on me. Orgs should set up good performance management to recognize and fire those people. But if one is talented and delivers, they often can and should demand more flexibility if they want it. And if employers are smart they will provide it, at least to people who’ve proven themselves. [/quote]

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