One of my clients insists on me being in the office one day a week. Travel time is work time in my contract, as is fuel costs.
So I drive the 5 hours there on a Sunday, charge them that as overtime for wasting my weekend, stay in a $150 a night hotel, expense my Sunday dinner, and at 1pm on the dot I set off on the drive home so as to avoid doubling the overtime bill.
That accounts for four hours of productivity and is costing them at least $300 a week, and all they are actually doing is paying me $300 to sit in the car for ten hours.
The other 31 hours of work I do get done in addition to the 10 hours they insist on wasting over a dumbass reason for 4 hours of presenteeism, I get done by getting up at 8:15 every morning and walking to a home office that’s got 3 monitors, a laser printer, and a dedicated broadband line.
By 6pm I’m feet up in my living room having done more than I’m actually contracted to do.
Bosses who insist on presenteeism for the sake of it are nutters.
It sounds like you are a contractor not an employee.
Bosses who insist on presenteeism for the sake of it are nutters.
Zactly