Being asked to get to work before start time

[TooBored1]

I'm being asked to get to work earlier than my start time, to set up for the day. Is this legal?

I'm salaried, with set working hours, eg 8.30 to 4.30 with 30 mins for lunch. I work physically in an office.

We hot desk and, at our managers insistance, have to take our laptops home every night.

Our line manager is expecting us to arrive at 8.15 every day, to set up desk, turn laptop on etc before 8.30. This isn't about taking off coats/putting lunch in fridge/ making coffee, literally about physically setting up for work

And ditto re going home. We should pack up our desk in our own time.

Does anyone else's boss make them do this?

No I think if you are your desk and turning your computer on at 8.30 then that’s fine. Walking in the door at 8.30 I cld see why they may complain. It only takes 1-2mins to turn off the laptop and stick it in your bag so I wouldn’t mind not turning it off until my finish time.

They are taking the piss with the 15mins. If it’s making things difficult for u I would try to start at 8.25 but I wouldn’t be happy about it. Logging in is part of the job, you can’t do it without setting the computer up so it should be on work time.