to be "coffee badging" when I'm working from home

I'm sorry, what?!

We used to go into school for registration then piss off for the rest of the day. We used to just call it nicking off though. No coffee was involved!

(By 'we' I mean pupils, not teachers )

Ok, so I’m looking for a job where I could do something like this post mat leave.

Please tell me which jobs they are.

I do hybrid working and I'm guilty of doing washing, dishes etc. however I do not take lunch breaks at home or anything. At work I'm too busy yapping to people lol! Saying that my work is always done and I'm always jumping to help others with theirs. My manager doesn't give a toot she also does it and will take time out to walk her dog. She also never comes to office on time is always later because she needs to take her youngest to school but equally she's still a great manager xxx

Most workplaces require you to swipe in and out and if they are trying to get people back into the office are monitoring those. So "coffee badging" won't work.

Is it a novelty to just do what you are paid to do in your working hours??

If you're the kind of tosser who takes advantage you'll do it anywhere

It's surely much harder to take the piss when people can actually see you?

I do household tasks, cooking, a quick laundry etc when I'm on my break.

Yesterday I treated myself to a hot bath on my lunchbreak. It was great.

Working from home is wonderful for me.

I can drop off and pick up my kids from school and nursery.

I always reach my targets as well, I work in sales. So definitely not slacking or leaving my computer for hours 😄 wouldn't work in my industry!

My organisation requires us to swipe in twice a week. There is no room for personal circumstance, so I have to drive 1.5h to be in a London office where my work mostly consists of sitting on video calls with people in America. I've started going home at lunchtime to continue working from home because my drive gets reduced by a third as it only takes an hour to drive at that time, and it means I am at home when work finishes and can get my son from nursery whom I would otherwise not see on my office days as I'd be busy sitting in traffic. That's the answer to the people wondering why you wouldn't stay once you've made the effort to go in.

As long as you're available and whatever work needs doing gets done, why should it matter what else you do. Obviously if you're doing nothing at home and just wiggling your mouse sending the odd email that's not great. I'll agree with my manager my plan for today is to write x paper and do x tasks, she says great. As long as that's done I'll sometimes fit in a workout, wash load, load a slow cooker, run the hoover round.

As long as you do the requisite hours, I see no problem. Everyone has breaks from work and working from home is no exception. It doesn't take long to put a load of washing on. If your firm is one that requires you to be face-timing for meetings at the drop of a hat, that could be problematic (not least because you'd have to be dressed :)), however it doesn't sound as though that is the case.

I've never before heard the term, 'coffee badging' and it sounds very silly. Someone I know, an accountant who does some work for my son and for me, works from home. Does the school run and some child care during the holidays but gets the work done so no problem.

Where does the 'badging' part of this ridiculous phrase come from? I don't do TikTok and have never heard of it, but can see no relevance to a badge.

I have never done either but I do some household tasks when I WFH like sort laundry. It doesn't take long, probably as long as a corridor chat when in the office so I don't see how anyone can complain really.

It's a bit like the 'leaving your jacket hanging on your chair to make it look like you've gone to a meeting and are coming back rather than having gone home early'. Or grab an 'internal envelope' (for the younger readers it was a thing we used in olden times when a hard signature was required for something) and bustle out in a way that looked like you had been summoned from on high when you're actually popping to the shop.

The means change with the times but human nature (on the part of some people) doesn't.

OP sounds about 14

People in my office used to do this before the pandemic tbh, it was a reasonable way to deal with the school run. They’d work 7-1 or 8-2, travel home, then pick up again from 3.30 until 6-7.

My boss does this. Then tells everyone they should be in the office more. Do as I say not as I do springs to mind.

I still don’t understand what it means. Coffee badging?

can you explain again?

A shining example of the misuse and abuse of WFH

Don't you have to tell someone or clock out in case there was a fire, they might look for you.

I had a colleague who did a version of this. We work from home but say we had to come in for a meeting that finished at 12 he would then leave the office so do his travel in works time. We are senior and he was on a decent salary. It irked me as he’d complain about his commute but the office hadn’t moved since he started and everyone else stayed for the day. But a lot of bosses wouldn’t say anything in my experience.

‘Coffee badging’ sounds like one of those bullshit SM trends that doesn’t actually happen. If someone swanned into our workplace, made a big fuss of being seen, then buggered off - everyone would notice!
My boss would want to speak to me if they thought I was in… there’s no way a ‘hi’ in the morning would cover it.
What a load of shite.

@pearlbeach and yet people still wonder why bosses dislike wfh!

The phrase "coffee badging" specifically refers to going into the office to swipe in (for those of us who have employers that do regular reporting and check on who swiped in). So if you aren't really working at home then you're obviously skiving, but not technically coffee badging.

Why is it called badging? I wouldn’t do it, our office coffee sucks balls.