Or, you could just work your contracted hours - the ones you're being PAID for - and once you've done them get up from your desk and walk out with a spring in your step and a song in your heart.... Why work at something when you're not getting paid? Why feel GUILT for leaving once they stop paying you? Are you an employee or a serf...? or a slave....? If people stopped working for free, maybe their companies would pay them overtime - if they *wanted* it...
There's definitely people who goof off at work or abuse WFH flexibility, but it's truly unfair that everyone has to be clocked to the same standard. My current boss/workplace is flexible, and I count it as a huge blessing since I work very efficiently, but it's not like that everywhere. It's also unfair for productivity to be increasing (with the rise of automation) and yet we are still at 40-hour work weeks at best, with some people putting in much more time. Ok, I'll get off the soapbox now. XD
ReplyDeleteI remember when we moved to Flexible Working (you had the choice to begin with) and I decided against it because I thought I actually wasn't doing my hours. It turned out that I was regularly *over* doing them and it took me a while to cut back. We had 37 hour weeks (or 42 if you had an hour for your lunch) which wasn't bad. Most people worked a little longer each day in the week and then left early Friday.
ReplyDeleteIt is 'funny' looking back to ideas from the 1970's where they predicted a 15 hour week due to automation and worried what people would do with all of their free time [lol]
YES! I love my job, I love my students, but I am not going to bring home hours of paperwork to do off-the-clock. That time belongs to Eleanor and me.
ReplyDeleteI would've done almost anything to help out my team @ work.... But work for *free* for the COMPANY? Yeah, right.... [LOL}
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