Aibu to thinking working on train shouldn’t count towards your contracted hours

[Daffodildainty]

I’ve noticed a couple of management colleagues recently working consistently short days then crediting 2-3 hours a day as working on train. Aibu to think this is bolocks, that you can’t concentrate properly or review papers during your commute and shouldn’t be working on highly confidential material in a public environment anyway?

I'd be suspicious as I am with working from home

I get so much more done when working at home. In the office it is constant interruptions, constant chatter, if you want a drink you end up making a round of drinks, I would count all the hours I was in the building (I 'stop the clock' when I leave my desk at home).

I'm sure there are people that take the mick. You see it asked on here - people asking about working from home with a baby to save on childcare . However, many (most?) adults can work very productively outside of the office.
Obviously, on a train, there may be confidentiality issues - depends how many people there are on the train, what you are doing, what aspects of your job you are working on, however, it seems from OP's later post this has got nothing to do with working outside of the office and everything to do with her colleague not completing work to deadlines which is a different issue.

I think it's very situational. My job (college instructor) allows us to work from home if we don't have anything that requires us to be at the college. They also recognize that we do a fair amount of work after hours and allow us extra holiday as compensation. (When we teach practicum we have to be on the floor with the students supervising them. They also have assignments to hand in, and we have to check those after hours.)