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

Agreed! Days I’m in the office my boss would probably expect to see me for at least a few hours, maybe do lunch with the team or a face to face team meeting.

Also can’t be arsed to go all the way to work, get office ready, pay for transport etc just for a coffee.

Ugh not another one of these threads.

Let me just give you all the common answers:

• Sticking the kettle on and doing a minor household chores while it boils is good and likely works as a movement break away from the screen.
• If you were working in the office you would lose more time chatting to colleagues.
• You can multi task in long All Staff calls where you are not required to participate, taking a movement break / do the ironing in front of the screen etc
• You likely work later at home logging in in the evening to finish something off whereas would have left the Office at 5pm
• Managing your own diary means you can block out (unclaimed/unpaid) time in the day for personal errands

Negatives

• This country is going to the dogs as all the feckless homeworkers do fuck all

You are massively fucking unreasonable to use a ridiculous term as "coffee badgeing", get off TikTok and do some work

Most workplaces are focused on output, not input. Nobody in my management cares what I do in non-contact hours. I have a set number of contact hours per week and the rest is "admin time". I can take 3h or 20 minutes a day to do admin depending on how much there is to get through. On lighter days, I use my time to do other things. Inevitably, there will be days where I suddenly have 16 reports to write and will be staying behind to do it.

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Depends on the company/role. MN believes you should be glued to the computer every moment of WFH so you'll be slaughtered shortly 😂

My company (Financial Tech) prides itself on being very flexible. I'll happily say, 'oh, popping off to do some laundry/do the school run/get some groceries' and no one will bat an eye. But I'll also work longer hours if there's something important to be done, so it evens out. I don't keep a log though! As a rule of thumb, if you'd be happy for your boss to know what you're doing (and they'd be happy), you're fine.

Coffee badging sounds daft. What if your boss is then looking for you an hour later because they have a question & think you’re in that day?