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...
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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
I 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.
It 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.
I 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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