Do you take work home with you?

mercurial said:
If yes, how often does this happen and how many hours do you spend on it?
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Yep.

Hours...depends. Between 0 - 3 usually, tendency towards 0. Occasionally it spikes to 8 hrs but thats an extremely bad day.
 
Yes, homework,grading and planning is a daily occurrence for us :(

and we dont get paid overtime :(
 
I'm on week 4 of 8:30 to 1am.. it's pretty devastating on the body...

If your NOT self-employed, draw a line or make sure your getting paid, I used to pull long shifts because I felt it was the norm.

I never got compensated. Once I was moving on a Sunday, hit the office at 8pm till 3am, took the next day off to carry on unpacking, was forced to take a leave day. I once had an accident because I just landed from an international flight after a week of 18 hour days and a further 2 days with no sleep, the excess was my problem, not theirs. Another instance after 8 days of travel I clocked R1000 in fines just to get home and hit the hay. My cost not theirs.

Most people will screw you over, putting in extra effort where needed is fine and it shows commitment, do not let yourself get screwed over though. If your asking it means your putting in more than an acceptable amount of overtime with no compensation, raise it and draw a line.

If you want to flip it to a companies perspective, hiring an employee (depending on industry, I will reference mine) is an expensive and time costly exercise, paying you R5k of overtime is pocket change to what it would cost to replace you. But, if you don't raise it, they don't actually know.

You may not qualify for overtime, if you hold a professional position (it's in the labour law) but if its an issue, raise it... if you don't the company is oblivious and you feel screwed which affects your work and attitude and they think everything ok.
 
Try to occasionally, then try and get it out of my bag. Come up with a hundred excuses why I cannot do it, the work goes back to the office untouched.
 
Not anymore. Did tons of unpaid overtime in the past, working until 9pm sometimes and weekends. Now I don't care about my work enough to ever do that.
 
I try not to but being self employed and working from home makes it difficult to avoid at times.
 
Right now, nope. I suspect however over the coming months I will have to. Lots to get done early next year. :)
 
Only when necessary, used to work at home for 2-3 hours a day, but they decided against that, so now I sit at the office till 4pm, and work at home very little.
 
Nowadays I don't work more than 2 hours additionally per day and refuse to put in any hours over a weekend. Yesteryear, i worked on average 65 hours a week (4-5 hours per day).

I don't get paid overtime, so there's no monetary gain for working overtime.

Question that you should ask as well - when you have to work from home (overtime specifically), why is it? Is it because you lack time management skills or is it due to your manager's expectations?
 
My golden rule, I never take work home with me. That's my time, and if you want me to dedicate it to your company you'll have to pay me a lot more than you currently do. I'm not some forever alone who goes home to fap and game, I have a family to spend time with.

That being said, sometimes things need to get done, and these extend my day well past 5:30pm. Rather than taking the work home I just stay at the office late, easier to concentrate that way. I don't mind putting in the extra graft to make sure everything is completed on schedule, and lucky enough this doesn't happen very often.
 
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