Do you give your all at work?

[WorkerBee123]

I work in a highly qualified but very very underpaid company, 100% from home. I have to log the hours worked and so I exaggerate them. This means I work about 2/3 of my hours. I get everything done, exceed targets etc. Anyone else do similar?

So you commit theft then? (Time theft is a form of defrauding an employer).

I'm in teaching, so I get paid for 8.30am-3.30pm but work 7 30am-6pm, through my lunchbreak and then do marking after my kids are in bed. Yay.

Are teachers paid for 7 hours a day then with paid lunch break?

When you’re in the office you are only productive 70% of the time, much less if you’re in meetings. My company understands this and provides a 70:30 split for remote jobs too. I’m expected to be away from my screen for at least an hour and a half a day - I usually go for a walk, have a coffee, wrangle ds, or hit the gym. I’m only expected to work to 70% of my capacity (remaining 30% is for learning and development etc).

I love my job, so yes, I give it my all.
I try to go above and beyond at any job I do, always have done, it's just how I do.
It's served me well, I have progressed steadily, and got more responsibility and opportunities because of it.

Yes. I like my job and I like my boss. My work makes a difference. I give it everything I have.

I have to give my job my all or I would get fired. So yea.

Most of the time I do yes, because I do a job that really requires it, but we are all human so I’m sure some days I’m more on form than others. I always work my hours though.

God no

Nice try HR

God no, I do the bare minimum and get great feedback. I could do better and some days I feel motivated but actually there isn't even that much work to do some days. And I'm in HR so I do hear about the genuinely bad performers every day, managers have much more madness to deal with than just people being lazy

I like my job at the moment so, yes, I do. Hasn't been the case in the past though.

Give my all, extra unpaid hours. I work hard all day, when others around me are online shopping, talking, generally taking it easy.

It’s to my detriment. I am very aware I am just a number, and loyalty doesn’t pay, but I am a people pleaser and it’s a hard habit to break. I’ve cut right back now, and am trying to ease up on feeling that I can’t take a day off because there are deadlines or it’s too busy.

There's a big difference your title question and what you are doing though. Giving it my all, would be performing well above what I am being paid to do. Your actions are well below what you are paid to do. I dont give it my all, I also don't commit fraud, I work to a sensible level, knowing when the odd occasion requires a touch more.

Didn't a woman post on mumsnet recently that her husband was getting called into a meeting for gross misconduct, for not working all of his scheduled hours at home

No, they're paid for 1265 directed hours over 195 days a year, which doesn't include lunch times.

Before school, during lunch, after school, weekends and holidays are all unpaid, but that doesn't mean the planning and marking for 5 lessons a day can be done without working in them.

I'd be careful op because work can do a lot of things to monitor your performance.

I work from home. I knew work were recording my calls.

I didn't realise that they were also screen recording my screen movements as well until after a while I was there.

They record and see my every mouse click.

That should have been told to me at the start of my job, but it's probably in the small print in my contract somewhere

What organisation would have the time or resource to do that?

Eh most of them do it.

Did you not know that?

Did you not just see in the news where a large company in the US fired work from home staff, as they tracked their mouse clicks, and were able to prove that the employees were not at their desk working for large amounts of time in the day

I bet you have busy and quiet periods though OP! the lowest paid and crappiest job I had was in retail for years. Midday-2pm was hell on earth, tearing your hair out busy, but 9-12 and 4-6pm was us leaning against the counter with a cup of tea discussing EastEnders.

No, I don't. I've put in a solid 10 years where my work was my whole life but now with young DC I have taken a step back and put in probably 50% of my previous effort. I don't exaggerate my hours though, I work the hours I'm supposed to. I just do a worse job of it, and don't do overtime.

I did and I went the extra mile turning up at everything they did outside of my working hours (I work for a charity) until i realised it did not actually matter to the people in charge and when i find out the prick who I work with who dangerously incompetent earns 3 grand more then the rest of us because he has a degree in the field.

He also never turns up to anything outside of work and he runs out to move his car 4 times a day so he does not get a ticket because he refuses to use the £2 a day car park.

I have basically done the bare minimum for a year and am now leaving. I was not treated any differently then when I did loads.

Nah. I do a good job and work get a lot of value out of me, but I want to save some of my mental and physical energy for the rest of my life and for my family. I definitely coast when there's an opportunity to, provided I'm on top of everything and delivering.

When I was wfh and on flexi time, id log on at 8, send a ( saved) email or 2, and then get the kids ready for school. I'd accrue flex leave this way, so a few extra days holiday a year.

Oh, and when wfh I have my personal laptop next to my work one so I can do a bit of unmonitored surfing, just remember to click the work mouse/ keyboard every now and then.