Be honest… what do you really do if working from home?

[Wffhh]

Just that really.

I often have a bath at lunchtime. Go to shops. Clean. Last Friday watched a Christmas film in the background in bed while doing some online training. Made a pie.

Sometimes I have to work very late. Sometimes on a weekend. So I think it balances out. Anyone else be honest? Do you ever have almost a day off doing life admin?

I was thinking exactly the same, reading the OP and many of the other responses along the same lines. It's another world!

My colleagues do this and I honestly think I’d nod off!

I go into my home office, sit down and my desk, and work my billable hours. If I step away from my desk or get interrupted, that doesn’t count as work time and doesn’t get recorded as billable so I don’t get paid for it.

really? most of the ones I've done are the most obvious, basic common sense tbh, where it's easily possible to get the 80% pass (or whatever) without watching any of it.

The last H&S one I did was along the lines of:
What should you do if the fire alarm goes off?
a) leave the building immediately
b) go back to your desk and carry on working
c) scream and panic

If they set it up so you have to click through each slide, I tend to read the transcripts (I can skim read at least 4 times faster than listening) or put the video on x2 speed.

Either that or if there's an option to just do the quiz without doing any of the training, then note any wrong answers, take it again and get 100% second time round.

I do my work. Lunchtime I might do some housework but I don’t do anything in work hours cuz I should be working.

Sometimes I put an audiobook on for background noise but that’s it really.

This pretty much sums it up for me

No, I am in a time-critical job, and performance and timing is monitored. Every minute has to be logged and accounted for.

But the poster who mentioned having a bath clearly said she did it in her lunch hour. If, when I was office-based, I’d gone out for lunch, I was fully checked out too.

OMG. My DH would go nuts to read your 'testimonial'! When he works from home he works 12 hours, bar about 15 mins to go to the loo, get lunch and the odd drink.

He's often talking (moaning) about employees who go off radar when WFH. Huge cost pressures means 1-2 people in pretty much every team have to be graded 'requires improvement' at bonus time, so by doing this they tend to put themselves forward quite neatly....

No we are monitored by the work that's completed and when we are logged in to Skype and teams. I work all day except tea and lunch break.

I work, but do small household tasks in between, such as putting on, emptying the washing machine, doing the dishes etc. In my lunch break I take the dog for a walk, so that is maybe a bit longer than my lunch break in the office would be. But I don't have a job where I am expected to sit there from 9-5, so it isn't an issue.

Yes on my lunch hour.

@another1bitestheduck

The training we use charges per test so they don't like you repeating it numerous times to pass!

Yes some answers are really obvious in some of the modules, but some aren't, like what fire extinguisher to use on a type of fire. I think there are about 6 types!

Well, what she does on her breaks is up to her as it's her time away from work. What's taking the piss is the amount of time she's describing - almost a whole day.

I’m working and sometimes I barely have time to go to the loo. I’m trying to make sure I actually take a lunch break now though and maybe go on a short walk. I am a lot more productive wfh as no office chatter. I am too busy to do housework.

Nice to see so many honest answers. Its amazing how all that time spent chatting in the office can be better spent going shopping, doing laundry, cooking, washing, ironing, cleaning the bathroom, childcare, walking the dog. Good old covid.

ÇFor what it's worth, I put my money where my mouth was when I was an employer. I cut working hours, increased pay, and the only mandatory office hours were two days a fortnight all in together to kick off the next sprint.

We set productivity targets at a budgetary level. All met, all fine by me.

I work 😄, probably longer hours than I would if I still had to commute.

I literally just work.

I actually achieve more on wfh days than office days.

The only difference is I can make my lunch, pet or walk my dog and do laundry all on my lunch hour.

I'm meant to start work at 9am, but I start much earlier - probably 7am as soon as I wake up. Then I storm through my work for a couple of hours - then go take a shower and get ready, do my morning calls. I also take breaks during the day and work later than I'm meant to.

I do a lot more work when I WFH compared to the office, but I do my hours a lot more spread out, which is why I get more done

I am self employed, so it is a bit different for me. I do not have anyone analysing my performance, do not work as part of a team, and have very little interaction with people. I work to deadlines and as long as I meet them and the work is to a good standard, people don't care when I did the work. If I don't work, I don't get paid. I work late, sleep late and during the day, especially in winter, I will walk my dogs in daylight or spend an hour or two around lunchtime schooling my ponies a couple of days through the week and eat lunch at my desk. I will make up the time later on in the evening when it is too dark to do anything outside. If the weather is bitter then we all snuggle up in front of the fire while I work from my laptop. I rarely have meetings. Now that I am older I am in the enviable position that the job I love also dovetails nicely with the lifestyle I fund it with.

I work! I LOVE working from home and appreciate that less companies are offering fully remote roles.

My previous employers were technically "hybrid" and I was supposed to be in 2 days per week. However, frequently circumstances were such that I had to be in the office 4 or 5 days.

Being fully remote saves me a fortune and I am doing my absolute best to keep my job so not skiving off at all. I do housework etc during my lunch break.

Do you ever have almost a day off doing life admin?

No, because I'm not a piss taker and I'm a responsible adult.

I have the kind of job that I can't do this anyway. I also love my job and am liked and respected by my workmates and boss.

I also have to be contactable on Teams during my working hours. Our IT department have set it so that I can only access my work Teams on my work laptop.

@Wffhh if you were doing this where I work it would soon be noticed and you would get sacked short shrift from management.

What do you do? This sounds great.

I really need to love into a wfh role. I'm a teacher, highly academic but need not to be "on" all day. I need breaks.

Worked from home today. Much like in the office, it was relentless.. but with an underlying edge of attitude from my team to deal with...they can't believe I'm not at their beck and call in the office every day. I wish I could manage the wfh skive but there are too many people relying on me to think for them.