If you WFH, what's your Friday afternoon like?

Blimey, if it's something you'd actually want to do then don't be put off by people who know fuck all.

Mine are always frantic. I realise I've run out of time to get everything done and just smash through as much as possible.

A lot of people have Friday as a non working day whereas mine is Wednesday so it’s quiet and time to organise emails etc before finishing at 4

It’s one of my most productive times. People try not to schedule meetings. It’s a good chance to get an uninterrupted block of focused work time.

Who cares? They don’t like it they can get different jobs surely? Why do I have to worry about what others are doing?

Prepare for weekend. Any shopping , housework and sometimes an hours kip to re set.

I get paid the same salary and incredibly lucky regarding my hours

I work in an office and Friday afternoons are often a lot of chatting and not much work getting done. Most people have had enough by Friday and motivation is lagging.

Normally Fridays are a slog to catch up all the stuff I haven't finished earlier in the week. I've still got my laptop open, although I'm obviously intermittently on my phone as well as writing letters, since I'm not being paid.

POETS day 🍺

Quiet day for meetings so it’s the day I get work done… I don’t work on a Monday so the last couple of hours are frantic emailing to keep the plates spinning until Tuesday!

I wfh 90% in a creative role. My job isnt a 9-5 - sometimes it’s practically 24/7, or I’m working between time zones so very extended hours, others it’s relatively quiet and I do work roughly 9-5, or I’m in a project phase that needs lots of thought and not much action. Sometimes working means I need to go for a walk and think things over. Sometimes it means I need to sketch or read or watch something, so it would look to someone peering in my window like I’m arseing around. Other times I’m sifting data or bashing out documents and emails with steam coming off my keyboard.

Fridays are different only in that I try not to schedule meetings if i can help it as many of my colleagues are 4 days (off on Fridays) so it’s a good day for deep work, as I’m mostly left alone.

The irony is, success in my industry is measured by results and output not hours, and none of my senior colleagues would give a shit if closed my laptop and went to the pub on a Friday afternoon, as long as I was delivering (and when I worked in the office, that was far from unusual)…. But now I just can’t bring myself to do it (probably because of thread responses like these!)

Quite.

Unfortunately, we aren't allowed to have threads on here about the terms and conditions of remote workers. It's impermissible. Someone always comes along to whatabout over completely different jobs instead.

This kind of comment is bullshit because it's 2 completely different and incomparable situations.

I don't do a manual job, I have a leadership role in a global company and WFH permanently. The fact that it's global means I'm on calls at 6am with Australia or Dubai, and at 8pm with US colleagues. The fact that it's a leadership role means I get pulled into urgent issues with little to no notice at whatever time or day the issue occurs.

So if I find myself with a quiet Wednesday morning or Friday afternoon then yes, I'll have a nap, or go for a walk or the shops, because I can't guarantee that I'll be able to do any of those things after 5.30pm as I'll likely be on a call.

Friday is usually for catching up and prepping for the following week, but there was some drama yesterday(not relating to me!) and I have spent a lot of today arranging meetings to get it sorted out

I can barely string together a sentence by Friday. I keep the day free to pick up the admin slack from across the week and to do thinking and problem solving which is what my job should mostly be. I'll only have calls, no online meetings, if absolutely essential. I logged off 10 mins ago so I still do a full day's work.

In my last job, pretty quiet - I was frankly underemployed, in a team of two and I would be mostly just online on my home laptop on a Friday as I was usually out of work that needed doing. I wasn't surprised when I was made redundant at a few months ago as I just don't think there was as much work as they thought there would be for me (it was a new post) - I did try to find some more to do but as it was a big and bureaucratic organisation I couldn't just opt go and do stuff for another team, it all had to be approved and come out of budgets etc so I couldn't make it happen.

About to start a new job which will, at points at least, be a lot more intense than any job I have had before, but then it pays well.

Could you tell us why that matters? Just so we get the picture.

No I just work as productively as any other day and only stop at tea break and lunch, but I'm counting down the hours till our early finish at 4pm. I actually get more done at home because on our two office days there's more chat and tea runs.

Why not admin? It sounds like they’re getting shafted.

I'm part time and don't work on Fridays anyway, but my employer wouldn't care if I arranged my work to have a quiet one/early finish if I did. Long as everything got done, fine. Some of us just don't have jobs where that would be an issue.

I wish, I’m busy from first thing Monday to finish Friday. I did wfh today as been in 3 days already but usually go to the office on a Friday.

Same as ever. Answering the phone all day! Expected to be fully working for the full day every day

I like Fridays - a lot of my team are p/t and don't work so it's much quieter and I can get quite a bit done! Always wfh

No Friday is always manic because everyone else wants to clear their desk before an early finish so I get loads of crap dumped on me and urgent requests for info.