explain taking work home from the office

All of my work is on my laptop. If I take my laptop home I am taking home my work. I work in an actual office about 2 days a week and work the rest of the time from home or on the road (hotels, planes, etc.). So between my laptop and phone I pretty much have my work with me at all times - unfortunately, even when I'm supposed to be on vacation.

rover1 wrote:

All of my work is on my laptop. If I take my laptop home I am taking home my work. I work in an actual office about 2 days a week and work the rest of the time from home or on the road (hotels, planes, etc.). So between my laptop and phone I pretty much have my work with me at all times - unfortunately, even when I'm supposed to be on vacation.

I get the I work from my home some days and I'm on the road working type jobs. Visit clients businesses or job sites, go to different cities for meetings, conferences and such

The folks I'm talking about just have a regular office worker jobs. You know jobs to be done in the office by office workers .

Its called a deadline

There just simply isnt enough hours in the workday sometimes

Ibuildthings wrote:

rover1 wrote:

All of my work is on my laptop. If I take my laptop home I am taking home my work. I work in an actual office about 2 days a week and work the rest of the time from home or on the road (hotels, planes, etc.). So between my laptop and phone I pretty much have my work with me at all times - unfortunately, even when I'm supposed to be on vacation.

I get the I work from my home some days and I'm on the road working type jobs. Visit clients businesses or job sites, go to different cities for meetings, conferences and such

The folks I'm talking about just have a regular office worker jobs. You know jobs to be done in the office by office workers .

What is an example of a regular office worker job? If someone can't finish their work during work hours they have to stay late or finish it at home. What's so hard to understand?

And pretty much everything in an office is done on a computer so what do you mean by taking it home?

don't like to go to the office

Most people have connections to their work email and work-related documents via their phones. So, simply carrying your phone means you're taking work with you wherever you go.

If your a professional runner like Bekele your literally running with your work and running away from it at the same time technically literally.

no place to hide wrote:

Most people have connections to their work email and work-related documents via their phones. So, simply carrying your phone means you're taking work with you wherever you go.

Yeah, I think "taking work home" has become an outdated expression. I haven't regularly carried a briefcase in years because I can just remotely access my desktop from home. I never hear people say they're taking work home because it's always understood that people can work anywhere, regardless of what they "take" with them.

I have a big issue with this. The lack of hours in a day isn't the employees fault. Regularly 'taking work home' or staying late is a pathetic means for an employer to get free work done. Life's too short for that shlt. Leave on time people, if you can't get shjt done in 7/8hrs evaluate how you work, that's a long time and lots can get done. Don't take it home though that's for family time.

gads wrote:

Its called a deadline

There just simply isnt enough hours in the workday sometimes

Ding ding ding!!! This is the answer!

Is the OP that insulated that they are incapable of coming to this conclusion on their own?

Banner. wrote:

I have a big issue with this. The lack of hours in a day isn't the employees fault. Regularly 'taking work home' or staying late is a pathetic means for an employer to get free work done. Life's too short for that shlt. Leave on time people, if you can't get shjt done in 7/8hrs evaluate how you work, that's a long time and lots can get done. Don't take it home though that's for family time.

Banner, you have inspired me. Next time I have a deadline and I'm required to work more than my normal hours, I'm just going to tell the boss that there's just not enough time in the day to get this done. If I get any flack, I'm going to point them to your post and I'm betting my problem will be solved. I can't believe I didn't think of this myself.

Thanks man!!

It has been years since there has been a clear allocation of specific hours devoted to work and specific hours devoted to pure leisure. The time clock world of punch in-work-punch out is gone. Couple a global economy and a paperless work place with finite time based deadlines in fast pace action-reaction business environment and voilà 9-5 only exists as a song title. The hour off for lunch, 10 AM to 3PM bankers hours, retail stores only open from 8am to 9pm and never on a Sunday all things of the past. It's a 24 hour world now. Few people are tied to a production line or even make things now, 6 foot tall 300 pound file cabinets are now 8 ounce bits of plastic with screens. We go to college and craft ideas at work we no longer apprentice to be a scribe or even a typesetter . We no longer have downtime because it is raining at the job site we multitask in the rain while at the parade.

At a time in the near past a widget was an unnamed article considered for purposes of hypothetical example

Today we all use Widget a software application that is designed to provide a specific piece of information (such as news, weather, or traffic updates) or a specific function (such as taking notes or controlling another application) on demand.

If I have dinner plans that require me to leave at 6pm, and I still have a half hour of work to do at 6pm, I can a) cancel my dinner plans so that I can work for another half hour, or b) head to dinner and plan to finish up my last few notes before bed. Nine times out of ten, I'd prefer option B.

It has to be said? wrote:

gads wrote:

Its called a deadline

There just simply isnt enough hours in the workday sometimes

Ding ding ding!!! This is the answer!

Is the OP that insulated that they are incapable of coming to this conclusion on their own?

Or the idea that taking work home did not actually hinge on packing a brief case full of papers.

Banana Bread wrote:

If your a professional runner like Bekele your literally running with your work and running away from it at the same time technically literally.

You flew too close to the sun with the second “literally”. You’ve become a parody of yourself. Maybe time to hang up the troll cape?

Banner. wrote:

I have a big issue with this. The lack of hours in a day isn't the employees fault. Regularly 'taking work home' or staying late is a pathetic means for an employer to get free work done. Life's too short for that shlt. Leave on time people, if you can't get shjt done in 7/8hrs evaluate how you work, that's a long time and lots can get done. Don't take it home though that's for family time.

A salaried position does not have a set number of hours, you work to complete a job, not until the clock says its time to stop. You don't get paid an hourly rate, therefore, there is no "free time". I do agree with you though, 95% of jobs should be able to be completed in 8 hours, most in 5 if you are good at what you do.

The way I see it, there are four types of people who take work home with them:

1. people who have high workload/high responsibility positions, those who knowingly signed up to work more than 40 hours a week. These people like to work.

2. people who are inefficient with their time or are bad at planning.

3. people who are bad at saying "no"

4. people who do work from home to look good to their corporate overlords. (believe me, it happens). These people are truly pathetic.

That should go both ways though, if you're done early, you shouldn't have to stick around, pretending to be busy.

I feel bad for you all. Sure, I’ll never make the Let’s Run minimum wage of $250k a year, but I make more than half that and I work a 40 hour week and don’t even think about work when I’m not at work. And I like my job. Working when you’re not at work is for suckers.

sometimes I want to leave wrote:

If I have dinner plans that require me to leave at 6pm, and I still have a half hour of work to do at 6pm, I can a) cancel my dinner plans so that I can work for another half hour, or b) head to dinner and plan to finish up my last few notes before bed. Nine times out of ten, I'd prefer option B.

Why even finish if you missed the 6PM deadline. Your work is useless unless it's ready at deadline.

Websters dictonary definition of deadline

a : a date or time before which something must be done

b : the time after which copy is not accepted for a particular issue of a publication

Perry White wrote:

sometimes I want to leave wrote:

If I have dinner plans that require me to leave at 6pm, and I still have a half hour of work to do at 6pm, I can a) cancel my dinner plans so that I can work for another half hour, or b) head to dinner and plan to finish up my last few notes before bed. Nine times out of ten, I'd prefer option B.

Why even finish if you missed the 6PM deadline. Your work is useless unless it's ready at deadline.

Websters dictonary definition of deadline

a : a date or time before which something must be done

b : the time after which copy is not accepted for a particular issue of a publication

Memory gets foggy with time, so I don't want to wait too long after I see a patient to write up the note.