I have a “flexible” WFH schedule which means I’m almost always working from home. Today, I’ve been lured in with an NDA breakfast with a manufacturer.
So you know what that means: 1 hour of “yum I love breakfast sandwiches” followed by 6 hours of “why did I think that would be worth the drive?”
What says you need to work the full day from the office?
You could work till 12, head home and finish the day from home.
I know myself too well. I would get home and accomplish nothing, unfortunately. Since I don’t do it often, my brain interprets the drive as a dividing line between work and play
I’ve done this a few times when people are meeting at my local office. I would put the kids on the bus and then drive in after rush hour, getting there around 10, and then I’d sit in on some meetings, have lunch, and then drive home around 2 to get the kids off the bus.
A manager said “you’re wasting an hour each way during work hours.” Those hours are wasted no matter what time they happen. I can make it up before the kids go to school or after they go to bed, but that’s the point of flexibility. That’s what work-life balance means. And I don’t have to waste any hours if I work from home.
Except right now. I’m wasting time here, writing this, during work hours.