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

Sighs deeply, I work completely flexibly so there's work to be done and a timeframe to do it but it matters not a jot whether I do that at night, early morning or the middle of the afternoon. Do I put the washing on, yes, do I read a bit of my book yes, do I miss a deadline, no.

My guess would a reference to an attendance badge at a seminar for example?

So walk in, get a badge?

This is very common at my place, and usually involves the school run so we can't have meetings between 12 and 4 with various people's childcare arrangements.

Just go to the office on office days, stay there and have lunch at a normal time.

@cherryflan please tell me that was intentional 😂

Surely shoving load of washing in is no different from having a toilet break or making a brew

My DH has worked mainly from home for many years,long before it was a common thing. He's always done other bits and pieces during the day, including the school runs when our DC were little. Right now he's in the garden feeding our chickens.
His bosses know this and always have done. In fact the degree of flexibility was one of the main reasons he took the job. But his job lends itself to that kind of working. There are some times he absolutely has to be working, mainly meetings, but a lot of what he does can equally well be done at 10am or 10pm and as long as his work is up to date nobody really cares when he actually does it. In fact quite a bit of his work has to be done at antisocial hours because it is dealing with international clients and he also travels abroad quite a lot. So it cuts both ways. He'll get up to do a Teams call to Japan at 3am but didn’t expect his boss to kick off in the days when he'd be out doing school pick up for half an hour at 3pm. And this week he will be away from tomorrow morning until Saturday lunchtime with lots of meetings etc outside standard working hours. He accepts that, and the company accept that he is going to feed the chickens and put the Tesco delivery away at some point today.
But if you have a job with fixed hours and you start and finish at set times regardless of where you're up to with your work then I think you should probably stick to those if you are working from home just as if you were physically at work. Though of course you should still be entitled to the breaks you'd get in the office so it's nobody's business if you use that time to put a load of washing in.

Lol

Sigh. No. If you're the kind of tosser who takes advantage you'll do it anywhere. If you are conscientious then you will do your work and putting on a couple loads of washing takes v little time.
Who wants to work in the kind of job where you can't take a couple of minutes for yourself/life shit "in work hours." I wouldn't do that kind of job in the office or out.

The post barely makes sense to me! And in what sense is the word "badge" being used here?

A pendant xx

Depends if the business you work for is outcome based or output based. Outcome based means if you produce the desired outcome and the goal is reached within deadline, how and when you do that is up to you. Output based businesses want to see outputs, number of calls, numbers of emails sent etc.

Of course I put the washing on when I work from home. It's not like I have to take it down to the river with a bar of soap and rub each item on a washboard.

Coffee badging? What a nauseating phrase and load of nonsense. There is absolutely no need to ‘show your face’ where I work.

Of course people wfh are going to do ‘home’ things. It’s a given and not something even worthy of comment. We have an agile working policy and we’re encouraged to be just that - agile. The days of clocking in and out and having set breaks are, thankfully, behind us.

I manage a team and, apart from the admin staff who work office hours in order to man the phones, I do not care what my staff are doing at any given hour. Nor do I check up on them. We are output driven now. If they work 37 hours or 27 is not relevant. That they meet their targets and get their work done is what matters. I have my 1-2-1 with my director later, she’s already warned me she might be late as she’s getting her hair done.

Most of my staff are site based and work alone, the only thing I ask is that they say they’re back from site on either teams or a text so I know they’re safe.

The boss doesn't care that they saw you having coffee for two minutes. They care when there's an urgent new job or meeting or something happens and they are expecting you to be physically present. And you're not.
If you're never required for such things then why waste your time and effort commuting to and from an office to stay for five minutes? Ridiculous.

I've never read anything on here that sounded so much like poor quality journalism in the making.

I fully believed this is nonsense posted for the purpose of froth or copy.

Frothycopycoffee badging

Has any of us here…anyone…anyone…Bueller…anyone…got a single original thought to post here on the subject of WFH?

My husband does 'coffee badging', because his company has brought in mandatory office days but his managers don't agree with it since some people including my husband have a 5 hour round trip commute so they tell people who come into the office that they can leave at lunch.
When he WFH he goes to the gym in his lunch break, I put the washing on before I leave in the morning and he takes 5 minutes to pop it in the tumble dryer in the afternoon. I don't think these things impact his productivity!

I find it hard to believe that many people actually do that. I'd notice immediately if one of my team disappeared and didn't come back!

This sounds like some kind of TikTok nonsense.

I’ve noticed this. I wonder what sort of roles people do that lead them to be so scared of flexibility and the ‘overlords’. Most corporates I know of are hyper flexible. Or perhaps they’re just lower down the ladder? No idea. My company doesn’t care how you manage your time, so long as your results are good. I’m a consultant now so I charge a lot, do considerably less than I used to, and do it when I fancy. 😬 it does feel like a postal sometimes but they’re very happy and so am I.

1. My commute is an hour and a half each way. It’s the biggest negative about working in the office. No way am I going straight home after I arrive.
2. Coffee badging makes no grammatical sense and doesn’t explain the concept of having a coffee and leaving at all.
3. Also we have the shit Nescafé, it’s not even Gold Blend, no way am I coming all the way in for that.

Some people do this in my office. They tend to stay in the office till lunchtime then head home and log back on. No idea if they've agreed this with their manager or not.

The only bit I struggle with about being in the office is the part where I have to leave my warm house and get on my bicycle to get there, so I can’t see the point of this at all. Once I’m actually there I just enjoy the warmth and the bonus of the free coffee and food and get on as normal.

This sounds like complete nonsense. What happens after you have shown your face in the office? You get in your car/on the train/whatever and go home again? What happens when you get a call from the boss or are asked to do some work but can't because you are driving for 30 mins? Not only are you pretending to be in the office but you are wasting work time on a commute which should be in your own time?

It does sound ridiculous - why both to travel into the office, which is the main thing a lot of people dislike, and then go away again?

It does sound like it’s a real thing tbh