Do you take work home with you?

My work hours are 7AM -> 4PM.
And I hate traffic so I will rather leave @ 4PM and continue working after 7PM when the kids are in bed.
 
Only when I need to do something in Excel :D

My Excel skills suck so I normally instruct the SO on what I want done and he does it in a tenth of the time it would take me :o
 
I have a work laptop, but am forced to be in the office for 8 hours.

I don't often work from home, but I usually do so when I'm on this forum all day :whistle: and have to catch up (as we have to log our time every day)
 
TehStranger said:
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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What he said.
 
I used to work a lot of overtime. Lack of any form of gratitude being shown by the powers that be, coupled with the fact that I have a wife at home who wants my attention, means that I avoid overtime except if it's to make deadlines now and then.

I think it might burn me with regards to increases this coming year, but I'm past the point of caring to be honest.
 
TehStranger said:
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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Me too. It is very important to keep a healthy balance between work and private life. I worked with an older guy several years back who had worked very long hours to build the company, spending very little time with his family. The company was sold when the kids were grown up and he got millions but he really regretted having spent so little time with his kids.
 
Messugga said:
I used to work a lot of overtime. Lack of any form of gratitude being shown by the powers that be, coupled with the fact that I have a wife at home who wants my attention, means that I avoid overtime except if it's to make deadlines now and then.

I think it might burn me with regards to increases this coming year, but I'm past the point of caring to be honest.
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Good on you brah. You have your priorities straight.
 
I used to work unpaid Overtime a lot in the past. I start work at 07:30 and use to leave around 19:00. I did this to show the company my dedication. They don't care...they just want the work to be done. I refuse to these days, I only get paid to be at work until 16:00 and 16:01 I am out of the building. I also used to take work home but those days are long gone.

I still get calls from work when I'm on leave. Fortunately I can auto block calls with my android device.
 
Generally over month ends I tend to do a lot of things from home as I just don't get to them in the office. This would entail 3-5 hours a night.

Other than that I try to not work from home unless my wife (self employed) is busy working, then I'll take out my laptop and do something. Issue with this is that there are some nights where she works almost every night...
 
Yes, I run two businesses so my working hours at 8am to 10pm... every day of the week :( Im hoping this will end soon, but the one company is a startup and needs a lot of attention.
 
I used to work unpaid Overtime a lot in the past. I start work at 07:30 and use to leave around 19:00. I did this to show the company my dedication. They don't care...they just want the work to be done. I refuse to these days, I only get paid to be at work until 16:00 and 16:01 I am out of the building. I also used to take work home but those days are long gone.

I still get calls from work when I'm on leave. Fortunately I can auto block calls with my android device.
 
Arzy said:
Generally over month ends I tend to do a lot of things from home as I just don't get to them in the office. This would entail 3-5 hours a night.

Other than that I try to not work from home unless my wife (self employed) is busy working, then I'll take out my laptop and do something. Issue with this is that there are some nights where she works almost every night...
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Does that put strain on your relationship?
 
loc said:
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.
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same here.. done it too much in the past.

Companies don't care about employees anymore.. so why should I burn midnight oil (for free)
 
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InternetSwag said:
Does that put strain on your relationship?
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I guess in a way it could but we've been in this situation so long that it has become normal. From my side I'm glad to see her working, means she's doing well for herself and she put a lot of effort in to get this far. From her side I know that my working at home peeves her a lot less than me messing around my own laptop at night when we could be watching TV together instead.
 
Used to remote in from home daily to check production logs early in the morning before heading to work and also did some work from home. Changed jobs and now it never happens anymore as I am no longer on first line production support. I seldom do overtime. I realized a while ago that for both cases it was a choice.
 
I've avoided putting in my VPN application for precisely this reason.. they can wait for me to come in during normal hours to do 'urgent' things as far as I'm concerned.. especially since a majority of the times the urgency comes as a result of poor planning on the originator's side.
 
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