Hybrid Working Policy help needed

Ah, I didn't spot that bit.

But agree, this is taking a policy to the exact word rather than the intention.

@jamcorrosion Mumsnet wants me to believe that the reason why I earn an average salary is because mumsnetters work harder than me.

And then I read this nonsense about interpreting "majority of the day" as 51%, then sodding off home after 4 hours in the office.

I hope my manager is thankful that I'm not a person who sods off after doing as little as possible, but that I go above and beyond to try to do the right thing.

Fwiw i dont read what your are doing as being a day in the office. Its more like showing face on a pretence of complying with the policy. If your days are designed to accommodate childcare then your should be in the office until its time to collect your wee one. Id play ball with your employer - when wee one goes to school you might struggle for childcare and need employers support to adjust things again.

PwC? Yes if I were your boss I’d expect you to be in most of the day, but leaving at 4 (provided you covered client commitments) would be fine.

In OP’s defence, she has been very clear that she is not picking her child up until the end of the work day. Working with a small child at home all afternoon is not what she is trying to do.

I agree she’s probably going to have to stop going home at lunch (I think I work at the same place as her). But the only problem is wfh more than she’s meant to, not the additional, (and much worse imo), issue of working while looking after a small child.

A day is a day.

Can You condense your hours so when you do an office day you work slightly less hours than when you work from home?

I used to go for a walk on my office days and would end up on the train home so I have nothing else helpful to say. My only excuse was I was the only one in the office in my team so only going into keep national rail going etc. I now have a wfh contract due to health conditions

I would have assumed that by "majority of the day" they meant you can get a slightly earlier train, not go at lunchtime. Like 80-90%, not 51%.

Once you pick your kid up, how are you working with them at home?

Can you say you'll do four days in the office, but half days like the hours you do now, and make up the time on a longer WFH day?

Do you have that in writing?

I think you are being way too literal to assume the ‘majority’ of 7.5 hours is 4 hours……

Is the train quicker?

You must have known you were onto a good thing here?
I can see why companies are tightening up on this.

Yeah i think see what they come back with on that....
And I would wait to see because if thats agreeable then it's a non event.

I would however work out the latest you can reasonably leave even if ot means more traffic (it's quite odd traffic is 45 mins max one way and so much longer the other way but I guess thats UK traffic!)
Have you ever done it at that time? Google maps is a reasonable gauge but I sometimes find it unreliable.

I'd also think about whether you would agree to this if they were adamant
you start at 8:15 so can’t you take half hour lunch finish at 4:15 and pick up by 5:30.

We can't do half and half days in case the place burns down and we don't know who is still in the office or who has just left for the day.

But why 3pm? You said nursery pick-up is 5.30.
It takes you 2.5 hours to get there? Surely not.

You keep arguing with people about the "majority of the day" seems any reasonable person understands that the company policy doesn't mean you head home at lunchtime 3 days a week.
What would you have done if you're expected in the office 5 days a week as most now are? Id be annoyed someone leaving at lunchtime for childcare reasons 3 days a week. When im paid to work, im in work, I only leave to collect my children when the working day is over. I think you need to be realistic and understand you need to be in the office 3 FULL days, they've probably changed the policy because of you and your behaviour

Just out of interest when it was only 1 day in the office did you do a full day or leave at lunch?

My daughter is a Lone perent, works full time, 2 days in the office. The hours are rigid. She does the office hours as requested, I feel like others that you are taking the piss.

I suspect the company are asking for this because either, other staff have complained you are only doing half days, or the management have had enough of people especially you going early then working from home.

based on where I work, if your working day is 7.5 hours and the focus is on days not hours and the expectation is the majority of the day then I’d expect you to be working your whole shift ie 8.15 - 4.15 in the office assuming you have 30 mins for lunch

lunch would be for break not travel time (travel home time would be expected after your shift not during)

it sounds like rather than this being a change to policy - which has always stated 3 days, it’s had to be put out as a clarification as people aren’t doing the whole day - they are doing half days which less than what the policy has stated

@jamcorrosion Why do you need to leave at 3pm though? It makes very little sense, unless you have a 2.5 hour commute?

Its aganist most work policys to have lunch just before leaving. You need to work after lunch or its not a break its an early finish. Stop saying you offered to stay till 3 you get paid to do 7.5 hours thats what you should be doing or flexible request you only do 6.5 hours on office days but only get paid for that

Do you not have core hours? That might have made it clearer for everyone.

It might be worth submitting a flexible working request to formalise the arrangement you need.