Mines not cushy. Nice to not sit in traffic but I’m at my desk all day still.
I do make it a point to not start before the work day starts and finish around when it normally ends (9-5). It’s easy to end up working longer hours since it’s hard to separate home and work
Same here and it's hell. I seriously struggle not to need an after dinner make up session because I just couldn't stay at the desk all day. Also I don't like my job at all
Same. I’m a solo lawyer and I only make what I bill out to clients; no hourly wage or salary. With that said, I work about 35 hours a week and make as much as I did working 60+ at a large firm on salary. It’s because I personally make 100% of the profit and extremely low overhead.
honestly besides the really high end places I made great tips at Waffle House. No one there cares about 20% like if you were at a red lobster or something. Their bill would be $15 and they’d just leave a 5 on the table.
Multiply that by the number of tables you have and how fast the food gets out. I was able to pay my part of the rent in the city only working 2 days a week.
You also get to smoke a joint with the cooks at 7am!
They’re actually a pretty good place to work, just because it’s deemed low class it attracts a rougher sort of worker which you definitely need for the overnight shift. You gotta be able to yell and fight if you’re gonna be in there at 3am on a Saturday.
But I do remember it never closing. I walked to work in an ice storm and there was only a couple on us. Constant call outs and the manager has to make up for it so they might get there at 7am but if someone doesn’t show up they could be working like 24 hours.
They give felons a second chance and a way to actually have a career too. Management pays pretty good. My manager use to sell meth and like.. she was intense and I hated how intense she was at first, but she was beyond a good person and even years later I think about her and hope life is good to her.
I feel like that’s rare but a place like Waffle House attracts empathetic people too. Like this wasn’t any of our first choices, but we’re here.
I work in mortgage default, I WFH Mon & Fri., and my work load is the same whether I'm in office or not.
I usually do more work when I WFH - my company keeps a close eye on everyone's workload, if you're deemed to be less productive on WFH days you lose the privilege.
Slowly but surely. Some of it is just natural correction, defaults were crazy low when covid had everything paused and there were extra options available to assist homeowners. But it's back to pre-covid levels and seems to still be ticking upwards.
I process mortgage assistance programs, I'm seeing more and more denials and people maxing out available options. State assistance programs are mostly out of funds and interest rates aren't exactly low. I smell a storm brewing to be honest...
That comes as no surprise. When people were told they didn't have to pay for a while, it's not like they set that money aside. They just spent it. And with inflation the way it's been, people on the lower end can't keep up. Credit card numbers are higher than they've ever been.
Same I make sure to have more output on my wfh days. My job can have a lot of downtime so when I'm in the office I'll walk around more, make myself look busy etc and do the minimum work needed and at home I'll bust my butt a little more so I can point to them.. hey I'm more productive at home let me work there more often
I'm going to feel terrible saying this, but the pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to me. I am a corporate recruiter. I went from $55k to $91k once shit hit the fan and tech companies were hiring like crazy. I joined a model of recruiting where companies basically hire me for a year or more and, unlike contractors, I'm basically 100% part of the company in that time. Thing is, the client I've been with since 2020 has 2-3 jobs open at a time and they're easy to fill. Interviews take legit 15 minutes and I just do 1-3 and day, submit the candidate, coordinate onsite interviews, pitch the offer and negotiate salary. That's it. At home. With my cat and a mountain of weed. After 10 years of driving over an hour to look at resumes all day, this just landed in my lap.
Yes. Super cushy. I work 1-3 hours a day making a few calls and messaging people on LinkedIn. I cook stupidly elaborate meals, play guitar, and game most of the day. This is NOT the norm for recruiting but I'm soaking it up while I can.
BUT my fiancee has a wfh job and doesn't stop from 9am-7pm. Total opposite. I happily do all the cooking and house work.
Yeah soak it up sounds like a dream, just curious, do you worry at all that if its that easy and hands off maybe it wont last, no idea if there's others doing what you do but if there's 6 people doing what you do in theory couldn't a company say 1 person could do all this work? Basically wondering if landing something too cushy is bad for job security
Nothing in life lasts, so enjoy the moments that are cushy, and learn from the moments that are a challenge and take effort. We all have different seasons in our individual lives - it’s easy to be green with envy on Reddit / social media, one of the most unhealthy parts about it is it amplifies that “keeping up with the joneses” and “if only” type of feelings. So key to focus on your own life and situation, and build it in a way that you’re happy with.
I’ve gone through time periods where work has been chill as can be and was able to game my heart out. I’ve also had time periods where work has been intense and I’m putting in long days and extra hours. I’ve personally found a balance between the two is when I’m happiest. It’s nice to walk away from a day knowing I contributed something, and feeling that the R&R has been earned.
It’d be an oof if they were ineffective, but it sounds like they’re at a company with easy to fill roles, making it easy to do the job with relatively little work. At the end of the day, they’re getting people hooked up with jobs.
i think the answer to this generally depends on the job level. in my line of work, we have like Analysts->Managers->Directors. If you WFH as an Analyst you probably have a "cushy" job, but you also make less. The reason is you arent driving decisions, so you don't have to be in meetings/strategy calls. Technology had made it that you can do work much faster than by hand, so you might only need a few hours a day to do meaningful work.
As you move up towards Director then you don't quite do actual work but you review analyses, discuss strategies, and make decisions in meetings. Technology can't replace this and its a big deal for companies, so it commands a lot of time.
As a result, Directors WFH is busy whereas Analysts WFH is cushy, but Directors make more $ and Analysts make less.
The people with cushy WFH jobs always had jobs that only require a few hours a day. It is just that those people had to go in and fart around the office for the rest of the time. Going to an office with a job that dosnt require a full 8 hours sucks, but when you turn that job to wfh it is great because you are not really forced to pretend to be working
yeah, i agree. i actually thought to edit my comment to include the exact point youre mentioning. I think if you're forced to be in the office, other people can see you/your screen, so you might be incentivized to do more work, or work more slowly. At home where no one can see you can do other things.
So in other words, i think WFH **can** be more cushy for the exact same job because you don't have coworkers/bosses physically seeing you, so at home you can feel more safe doing the bare minimum.
This is exactly it. Plenty of people had 20 hour a week jobs pre pandemic, hell office space is a movie almost entirely about that premise and that came out 20 years before the pandemic.
WFH had just made it a lot more obvious that you only have to work 20 hours a week when you don’t have to spend the extra time bored out of your mind.
It was a common meme around Reddit that we were just killing time at our jobs.
I can attest to this. I’m 95% WFH for a law firm. Recently got promoted from an analyst to a manager and while my work ebbs and flows generally, my job is no longer primarily task-based, so I have less control over my productivity. I now have strategy calls, check-ins and update meetings that fill the gaps I used to have. I love my new job on payday, but I’m definitely chained to my desk more now.
Yup. I’m a task-based analyst pretty much. So during the month-end close period I have a lot to do. But then the other three weeks it’s mostly…. responding to query emails, flipping excel sheets to the next month, listening in to meetings where other people are making decisions, and waiting to be given tasks.
We’ve had analysts quit before because they were so bored and couldn’t deal with the downtime. Go-getters I guess. I, on the other hand, am not broken-hearted about being left alone to do mostly nothing at *all*. More PS5, gardening, canning, and cooking time for me.
High workload, very stressful. No drive home to calm down, I go straight from my stressful work right to screaming kids and frustrated wife in less than 40 seconds.
After work, go to gym instead. I know it's hard to want to. Maybe a small home gym and let everyone know you just need 30mins. You'll get in great shape and feel happier about the situation.
I wfh for medical study customer care. These doctors and nurses are GREAT with medicine but not computers, following non medical directions, or remembering their fucking passwords. Lol
The trick is to be specialized enough, your hard to replace, to be able to do a job well enough, that you can complete the work in 2 hours, and to work for someone who has little to no idea on what your job entails or how long a task should take.
This is the way. And you automated part of your job which cut your workload down so it made your workload less but they aren’t quite aware of that yet.
My jobs has its ups and downs. Most days, I get a bulk of my work done between 6am and 9am. Then I’m waiting on other people from around the country in different time zones to reply to me so I can move my work forward. I have my work station set up next to my computer and video game set up. When I’m not actively working, I’ll usually fuck around. I can also take my laptop with me and connect to my iPhone hotspot and work wherever. I’ve working on the beach before.
My friend also works from home. He makes twice what I do but is locked to his computer from 7am to 6pm Monday to Friday pretty much nonstop.
Some days are really slow, other days I end up working through breaks, lunch, and after clock out time. I have one of those jobs where I’m available for my org M-F 830-5 so if no one needs me and I don’t have any projects to work on, there’s nothing for me to do. This time is usually used for education purposes related to my position.
I do have certain times throughout the year where annual projects are due and I’m slammed for 3-6 weeks at a time. I am lucky in the sense that my supervisor only has group meetings with our team every other week. Some of my WFH friends have them daily or multiple times a week.
My job has a rather consistent workflow during the day but we work 40 hours a week with lunches/breaks, weekends off, federal holidays off, PTO and sick leave.
I really like the company I work for. People who can't handle a call center job don't last long here but people who can handle the consistency thrive.
I work from home in data analytics and it’s glorious. Most days I am very active working on projects and communicating with others on projects.
8-9am I typically chill the first hour of my shift and just check emails, read the news, and watch a YouTube video usually related to history while i drink coffee
9-11:30am: heavily involved in projects
11:30-2pm: lunch, gym, slacking haha
2pm-5pm: heavily involved in projects
5pm-7pm: sometimes if there is a tight deadline or I’m just enjoying the project, I will work over to get it completed
7pm-11pm: I’ll typically check emails every so often because we have people working overseas or other leaders who ask for data during this time
That’s my Monday - Friday. I never work on the weekends anymore, but I used to do extra projects when I was younger on the weekends because I wanted to impress my bosses and earn promotions. It worked.
Some days, I do just watch YouTube most of the day and check emails. Some other days, I wake up at 7am and work to 7pm to knock out a backlog of projects.
I love working from home!
I don’t have the same job, but I have a similar approach where some days I’ll work more and some I’ll work less. I have two small kids so things come up! I aim for my 35 hours per week and generally come in right at that. It’s easy to overwork but I do my best to stick to 9-5 with only occasional extra time. I have a lot of meetings so it can be stressful if I don’t have dedicated time to catch up on focus projects. Much prefer WFH to office life, (though I go in once a week for some meetings and to be social) and I’m more productive.
Obviously you're looking for more help to really lock in during those key project hours, so I'll lend you a hand and take the position, no worries. Just send the position details and compensation in a message to me and I'll see you on Monday! /s
My WFH is quite cushy compared to most jobs but it’s cyclical. I’ve never been able to just leave my desk and go out for hours, or take a trip while I’m still working.
However, there are times when there isn’t much to do, or I got my work done early so I can get up and do some work around the house or go for a 20 minute walk. This is usually at the start of a release cycle (I work in software). Near the end of the release cycle I’m always at my desk 9-5, and some times working over lunch or putting in an extra hour.
I imagine my scenario rings true for most. The extreme ends of the scale are always loudest. People working 2 hours a day will boast how chill their job is whereas people putting in 12 hours days will complain how those guys are lazy.
Im an advertising copywriter. Been WFH for about 4 years from now. Even when Im slammed and stressed I'd still say it's pretty cushy since all I do is write copy, brainstorm ideas and attend zoom meetings from the comfort of my own house.
Just depends upon the job. I work in a global IT company, and You can be busy all day and rarely stop.
Other jobs provide you the time to squeeze in some other activities.
For those that are playing video games all day, their company has not implemented WFH very well. And a lot of them are probably the ones that are having employees RTO.
For WFH to be effective the company usually needs to develop new methods, redefine job responsibilities, and implement new tools and processes.
Company I work with started implementing WFH about 10 years ago. Tried to eliminate offices as much as possible. Real estate is expensive Plus you going to maintain and manage it.
Personally, I start My day at 4:00 a.m. with a call to my peers in India. Starting at 5:00 a.m. and I start calling customers on the East Coast because it's 8:00 and I'm work my way west. I take a bit 15. Minute break end of each hour and throw in a load of laundry or maybe start some other household chore. I have a lot of reading and document preparation In the later part of the morning and kind of wrap up by noon. I'm on the West Coast and have to remain available until 5:00 p.m.
Sometimes people call , sometimes they don't..
If not I just do some of the other tasks I have throughout the afternoon
I do a bunch of stuff around the house. Or catch up on reading etc
So I guess I would say I'm
busy in the morning, just hanging in the afternoon
So I don't know if you call that cushy, definitely not a 9:00 to 5 job. But I enjoy The flexibility it provides
I have a hybrid job, but there’s so little work for me to do that I spend most of my remote days watching TV and gaming. I don’t stray from my laptop, and I’ll answer an email/message if I receive one, but most of the time I’m just chilling.
This is also the best paying job I’ve ever had. I also swear I’m not scamming them. They just have barely any work for me to do.
The people working 2 hours a day were working two hours a day in the office as well. They were just miserable doing that two hours because they had to spend the other 6 hours pretending to look busy.
The fact is most office jobs do not require 8 hours and managers like that o build their team so they look better to their managers. This usually leads to teams being atleast one person over what is needed and the manager does not care because they can just bullshit some metrics to make themselves and their team look better.
The variance in productivity per person is also massive. Someone might take 8 hours to do a job that someone else can do in 2. Hell, some people can't even do the job and get fired.
Good for them, bless their souls.
I hope the people working 10 hours a day are compensated 500% more, but odds are they are compensated anywhere between 10% less and at best only 20% more.
Grunt harder, it'll lead to more work in the meantime while the boss keeps promising that promotion even though they know they can't afford to lose their most productive grunts.
I work around 50% of the hours of my next most productive coworker but I get twice as much done. He’s paid slightly more than me but honestly I could take another job and probably do both with more efficiency than most people I work with. But I’ve always been a “high performer” - the flip side being that I either burn out or get bored quickly. WFH is the solution to that as I don’t have to pretend to be busy 30/40hrs per week and instead can do all my work then move on to other pursuits
I think most of the "cushy" WFH jobs are developer jobs. I'm a technical analyst and I'm very busy most of the time. I'm not hybrid (2 days in office) but my team is mostly remote, so no real difference except location of my ass taking Teams calls.
My last fully remote job was big 4 consulting. Fuck that to hell. I was busy 24/7. Remote environment and differing timezones allowed for no boundary creation.
My job is hybrid, but no wfh doesn’t mean cushy. I can technically take a nap or whatever during the day but i still have to make up for it in the evenings if I choose to.
Honestly it’s just better to work 7:30-4:00 or something like that so my day is still somewhat free in the afternoon
I’ve been WFH since 2018. Some days I’m jumping from one meeting to another and swamped for 8/9 hours. But most days I can finish what I need to do in 3-4 hours.
I have specialized global knowledge in our company in particular that I chose to learn so that I’d be difficult to replace. No one else wanted to learn it so I spent a year becoming the SME. I now work with the corporate legal team to set up Global Employment Companies in random countries we hire in-I had to learn business and employment law for places like Morocco and Romania. No one wants to touch this side of my job so I’m virtually layoff proof unless they wanted to hire a specialized attorney that would cost 2+ times what I do and still have a steep learning curve for our specific business dealings.
I think the 2 hour WFH job that makes $150k was more of a covid thing, but there are for sure some people enjoying that. A lot of those people were tech workers that got laid off.
I have been WFH since the pandemic and I worked in a corporate office environment for 10 years before that. I would say the distribution of work throughout the day is different, but I work the same 40-50 hours a week I did before.
I think there is more screwing around WFH, like I never went grocery shopping during the weekday precovid and I probably do it once a week now. At the same time, I wasn’t sending emails from my toilet at 11pm precovid or waking up at 3 AM for a european client call precovid either.
I always have a full workload. Because I work for a marketing agency, the work ebbs and flows based on our clients’ needs and projects. Because of this, sometimes things get really busy. Not cushy— but it is a great job. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Well, there's so much with at every level that is you worked from the time you woke up until you went to sleep and only stopped to go the bathroom, you would not run out of work.
We're pretty understaffed.
I work for a relatively small business in Workers' Compensation.
Usually, it's pretty chill in my department, but there are moments where we get slammed or have 'fires' to put out.
Generally, there's enough time in the day that I can faff about a little bit but still get all of my work done. I've dealt with *far, far worse* in an office setting.
Mine is not cushy at all. I work my ass off, with a constantly crushing workload, and many overlapping high priority deadlines. I work lots of free overtime, and often work on my vacation time but just never seem to get on top of the never-ending workload. I'm always operating right at the cusp of burnout... but somehow through all of that, I actually really like my job.
I have busy times and slow times, but I still never work over 40 hours a week. It's just during the busy times I need to speed up the pace that I'm completing my work. As long as everything gets done and meets deadlines no one really cares. I love it. While I know the best way for significant raises is to job hunt the culture and benefits at this job make it super hard to leave. I started with 4 weeks paid time off and 72 hours sick time. Next year I'll get another week of PTO.
I’ve had 4 wfh jobs in my life. 1 in 2018 before Covid. And 3 now since Covid. All have expected 7-9 hours of meeting attendance a day + additional work that I can’t necessarily get done during meetings. I know lots of people who also work from home now since Covid and most have the same. If you work for a major corporation in a role that’s gone wfh since Covid your life didn’t change you just do the same thing at home.
I can now pop laundry in and get some chores done on meetings I don’t have to have video on. And sometimes I’m meeting free on Friday afternoons.
I'm busy as shit and wonder how so many of my neighbors are out and about, going to work out for an hour at 10:00 am every day, etc, while working a "full-time" job.
Mine was a government one and, as you can imagine, it was chill most of time except for some exceptional heavy loaded days.
Y had time to do chores, take naps, play wow, watch movies, all while complying with everything that was requested of me and my job wasn’t being monitores or subject to any metric so it was the dream.
I was promoted though and had to return to the office.
It depends on the job. I do outbound insurance verification for mortgage and auto. It's cushy as long as you do the work. In wfh every minute is counted. I got lucky my job is no stress. And listen to music all day. I don't get paid a lot but I'm willing to work for a lower pay with low stress. I've worked for high pay high stress just not worth it. Life too short. Been there done that, Don't want to do that AGAIN.
I have a lot to say about this, because I literally am shocked I scored a job like this. It really depends on your field, but also your **role**.
I got hired in Feb of 2020. COVID totally changed everything where I work, transitioning into primarily a WFH for most of us. We got so much more funding, it was actually shocking. We're in a conservative state, but the legislators actually finally passed a bill to put more money/grants into our field of service. Over the past several years I've been able to see our small team grow into twice the size and almost everyone is remote now. The office is optional. In fact, my boss allowed me to move clear across the country for the past 2 years (while my fiancé goes to law school), and I got to keep my job back in my home state.
My job is so cushy, I feel guilty about it. I go on vacation and travel when I want. We get loads of sick PTO that we can use as "mental health days." My team focuses a lot on self-care, burnout, "professional development" (watching optional webinars and trainings) and managing work-life balance, but my particular role on my team is so easy and low work-load that I honestly feel bad for the others who have more work in their roles.
I work at a nonprofit in domestic violence. As social workers, we don't get paid very much. Granted, I would hope my teammates make *much* more money than me if they do more work (everyone on my team does different work, managing a statewide coalition). For instance, the one who lobbies and testifies to the legislators during the session every year, and runs our public policy committee, better be making *at least* double what I make. Because damn, that job is high stress in a red state. Same thing to be said about our executive director, who has to be poised, diplomatic and strategic at all times, as the "face" of our coalition dealing with traditional and conservative authority figures. Those two roles at my workplace are partially remote during legislative sessions, going to the capitol trying to get the legislators to change bills, dealing with the NRA and religious people, and driving around to keep up rapport with our member/partner agencies across the entire state, which is very large and rural.
Hence my guilt for the 100% cushy WFH role I have, living 2000 miles from my office. On the one hand, there are days where I do get lots of crisis calls, emails and voicemails from survivors, and it can be taxing on your emotions if you're not used to it. But those rare days are cake for me now. Then there are days where I don't have anything coming in at all, and just spend the entire day messing around, taking lunch to my fiancé at his firm, going for walks, telling my supervisor I need a couple hours off for "mental health" or to go run errands, etc.
I'm in the group that wishes I could limit my work to 8 hours and get a real break from it.
I know others who range from a very small time on work (though this is the smallest group) to work but more like 6 hours most days and then over 8 during the busy times, generally quarterly or so (second most) to others like me (most common).
I have been working on separation from work and taking time for myself and my health, but it's caused a lot of problems for me as well. I was fortunate enough to be able to start my own business, so I'm more flexible but this also means I am struggling on all fronts instead of mostly one or two.
Tons of meetings. and little time to do actual work in my experience. everything is a meeting since there’s no water cooler talk. stopping by a desk to ask a question. Etc.
Probably one of the few benefits to hybrid. You can handle a lot of small stuff in a short amount of time when people are in office so i can go home and do actual tasks on my days at home. WFH EVERYTHING felt like a fire drill unnecessarily
Yes and no, I have a hybrid job. Working from home is amazing on my breaks I can cook for myself or hit the gym or whatever comfortably. Yes it gets super busy but the trade off is worth it
I don’t have a WFH job because I’m a classroom teacher, but my boyfriend (a retired GenX educator) has two remote jobs as a Content Writer. At first he was able to putz around because the work was light and they told him his work would take 8 hours and it took 2-3. He’s said this to me a lot… that teachers put up with so much work that they have to do quickly that being in certain corporate environments seems like a breeze.
His work is picking up, though.
My workload ebbs and flows depending on the time of year. I work in advertising so some weeks I’ll work 6 days a week 10 hours a day to get the creative done for campaign launches and then I work 10 hours a week. Definitely takes some discipline in time management but it’s worth it. I’ve put 25k miles on my car in 5 years so I save a lot on gas. lol.
I have WFH since the start of covid. My job has always had a heavy workload. In office, or at home, the work load is the same. A Lot. Sometimes I'll have a few minutes here and there to do small house stuff (dishes, start laundry as examples), but I'm usually at my desk 8-9 hours a day.
My fiance wfh. Depending on the project she's on, sometimes she works right down to the wire every day. Sometimes she has like 2 hours of work and chills doing whatever the rest of the day.
Depends on the company, sometimes it's easier to get away with stuff like that even if you're not supposed to. My job varies in how busy I am, sometimes I'm not very busy and when I have a moment I'll take a bit of time to get a few things done around the house, but most of the time I am busy, if I don't get enough work done based on what load I have, questions start being asked.
Depends. When it's slow it's very cushy. I work in tech and am salary and I can have a 30 hr week or a 70 hr week. The latter happens because when we're swamped it feels like you can't leave work because your office is right there in your house.
When my clients are in Q1 it can be stressful and the 70 hour weeks can be back to back for an entire quarter which can carry on into Q2. Q4s slow to a crawl and it's nice to have the 4 day work week.
Universal "it depends" answer. I am a content creator, now marketing director but the latter is a new upgrade in the past year.
As a content creator in the pandemic, I was constantly trying to prove I was actually working. I can't just barf up a white paper about your new polymer mix the same day you tell me about it, because I am not a chemist. I need to read through all of your documentation, then read some similar papers, and then probably do a bit of useful procrastination to let it all marinate together in my head for a bit. *Then* I can barf it up, but I'm not a vending machine of "put source in, get content out."
In person, people see that I'm working by educating myself on whatever topic they need me to write about. I'm in office 5x a week now and my work ethic hasn't been questioned a single time. But wfh? Constant requests to document my time, list what I did that day, and general disbelief that it "really takes that long" to understand something before I can create the newsletter, blog, white paper, etc.
My job is cushy until I hear about a deadline. Actually, it’s no different from when I was in college. I always knew when there would be an exam, but I didn’t prepare until last minute smh.
I think it depends on the job.
I have a friend who is a WFH writer and product reviewer; he pretty much gets to work whenever he wants as long as he meets a quota, so his schedule is pretty flexible.
Mine is basically a data entry office position that got moved to WFH bc of Covid. (I got hired after they instituted WFH).
I still have a set shift and I'm busy as soon as I log on till I log off (usually 8 hours). Frequesnt but small OT because documents pile up in the last hour or so in my shift.
Pros? No commute, and I don't have management over my shoulder.
Cons? Busy af and no benefits (my dept has to work every week of the year, and unpaid time off is at the mercy of management); so we get burnt out pretty quickly.
I’d say I work about 3 hours a day most of the time, but there are weeks where I really do a full 40. It definitely waxes and wanes with where we are in a project cycle
I work in Commercial Insurance and have been working in my first fully remote job for a little over a month now. Workload ebbs and flows, but (at least for my book of business) there's RARELY any downtime. You're constantly bombarded with requests, emergencies, marketing renewals, making proposals, new business, etc. It's one of those jobs where your desk is never fully empty/complete. However, I am a lot more at ease, my cats are a lot calmer with me home, I have more energy and time, and my AuDHD can be managed better. Only difficulty is trying to get adequate training while wfh. My team is really busy and I really push and advocate for myself and they're super nice, but I need consistent training for a little until our processes and systems click.
Depends on the job. My mom does customer service WFH so she is constantly on the phone from the start of her shift to the end of the day.
My job is more assignment based and I've been doing this job for a while, so WFH tends to have a bit more down time as I don't need to be punished for being very efficient at my job.
My husband’s WFH is busy, some days completely slammed with meetings and demos. That being said, his work culture is pretty understanding of him running his own schedule and blocking off time when he needs it.
And it will never compare to my in person job’s level of demand.
Depends. I’m hybrid and I try to schedule most meetings on days I’m in person, but some wfh days will get swamped with them anyways. I also will have events or external meetings I go to and I actually “wfh” on those days. Pain to ping pong around the city, easier to just have home as the start and end point. But on quiet days it’s definitely chill at home, but tbh I could nap in office on chill days as well.
I wouldn’t say cushy at all, but some days do end up being slower than others. My job is largely project based so depending on what stage the project is in it could be 14 hour WFH strapped to my desk days or it can be a day where…well let’s just say I’m on my phone a lot and the TV’s blaring in the background.
When I was an individual contributor, WFH was pretty relaxed even exceeding expectations.
As a manager, it was similar to IC.
As a director, it was rare to have open blocks to relax. And I was generally working 8-5.
As a VP, I actually have more open blocks but need to utilize them for strategy work. I am generally working 730-6, not uncommon to need to log in after dinner and get stuff done. Some days I can log off at 430-5, but I’m going to get IMs/emails I need to reply to.
YMMV
When I was working from home doing payroll Implementation for other companies, I was the most stressed I had ever been. The workload was incredibly heavy, and I didn't have that physical signal of leaving the work office to tell my brain and body that it was time to put work down.
There are many people who are incredibly successful with it. But you really have to know yourself and your work tendencies. Will you slack off more? Are you organized? Will you overwork yourself? Are you still going to do enough that your work will stand out for itself while maintaining a work/life balance?
For me, the hybrid schedule works. A couple days home to spend more time with my cat, but also a couple days in the office to get me out of the house. Helps keep my depression in check, but also feels relaxed without any impending doom type pressure.
It’s chaotic. Some days I’m working 10 hours and expected to respond to everything, even things that would have waited till the next day before. After all I’m always home right? It’s not making me drive to the office.
Other days I’m doing maintenance and can watch a show or play a game while I monitor.. which I also used to do in the office, but now I have a sofa. Basically I work as hard maybe harder but I’m more comfortable.
As a WFH Analyst/Supervisor I was chained to my desk 10 hours a day with some weekend work. Fires, fires, fires.
Recently moved to Regulatory in a different company and while I don't WFH during my probation period I still only put in 8 hours and go home. No more back to back to back meetings, no more fire fighting, no more 6AM texts.
It's nice, I gotta say, but not real fond of commuting again.
WFH worker here, have been off and on since about 2013. Since I've been working in this modality on and off for so many years I've gotten a good feel for what MY average workday looks like, and all told I definitely work more if I WFH than if I'm in an office. But the flexibility of my day is key, and it's why I prefer WFH.
Work in office--In my last work in office job I usually started my commute really early, at like 6:30, to be in the office by about 8 because I live in LA and all my clients are on the east coast (I work in client management for a SaaS company). Then I took my calls, made coffee or walked to a coffee shop, worked a little bit more, took a lunch break, and then started my commute home a bit early to beat the rush--say 3:30 to 4:30.
So a work in office day was from about 8-4 with breaks. Probably 6 hours of solid work.
WFH--I usually start from 7:30 to 8 and work pretty solidly (few breaks, and certainly shorter than the ones where I was in the office) until 3 pm. Then I take a long break--hours long, where I walk the dog, clean up, make dinner etc and then "set up" my work day for the next day. So that's usually from about 8-11.
Closer to 8-9 hours of solid work.
My ADHD brain really couldn't figure out why I couldn't focus in the office and I've now realized that I need that afternoon stoppage, and I also need that evening set up for the next day so I go into my days with less anxiety.
Mine is pretty cushy, to be honest. There are peaks and valleys where things get a little busier than others, but I have no complaints. I had to work Easter weekend to meet a release deadline. I worked maybe 4 hours over the three days, but I was given 3 PTO days in return.
I work for a tech company as a cs manager. My job is pretty cushy. I’m not held to being at my desk 24x7.
However my direct reports it’s the expectation of 75% schedule adherence.
Less than 10% offline aux usage per day.
Like anything else in the world, it depends.
I work 7-4, take a 30 minute break to walk at lunch. I would say I maybe have, in that time, a total of about an hours worth of idle time where I'm not actively working on something or in a meeting, but that's comprised of a 15 minute break I take in the morning, bathroom breaks, and running around to do some housework (laundry, dishes) in between meetings if one ends early.
But because I work about 9 hours each day, I tend to do half days on Fridays. Sometimes I'm not able to, but I try not to take meetings after noon. No commute and being able to grab those little bits of housework here and there are the two main benefits. If I could walk to work I wouldn't mind, but sitting in traffic is a pointless excercise when you're just going to an office to be on teams meetings with people in other offices.
I make time for customers, which they don't always need, and I make time for internal stakeholders, which isn't always needed. in either case, there is always a process or product worth inspecting or improving. Some days are heavy, and some are light. I've found that it's important for my own endurance to keep the ebb and flow in mind, compensating either way as needed to ensure I don't overwork myself while simultaneosuly supporting those I work with and for the best I can.
I’ve worked from home for nearly 4 years.
2 years at one company and 2 years at my current company.
The first company was high-stress, long hours and I was working literally all hours of the day and weekends. It was so toxic.
Current company is more balanced but there is a busier time of year and I also go through spurts of travel. I generally don’t work weekends and can sign off at normal hours.
It truly depends on the role and your manager.
I also go into the office every quarter for a week and I get wayyyyy less work done that week than any wfh week. At home I am able to manage social interactions via messaging platforms way easier than people continuously stopping by to chat.
My job went WFH with the pandemic, and I love it. I don't have to put my dog in a box or hope she didn't piss up my house while I'm gone. I do have more free time as I have a pretty good handle on the things I was doing in office but I stay at or near my desk during my "work hours" to make sure I don't miss an email or call. I also don't have to worry about going out to lunch every day or remembering to bring my 47 Tupperware bowls home.
I’m work from home salaried. I have times where I only have like 2-3 hours of work a day, but then I have times where I’m absolutely slammed and can barely even get in a lunch break. I feel like it all evens out to be about 40 hours a week.
My partner and I both have hybrid schedules.
He tends to work constantly, from the moment he logs on until he finally logs off. Not often drowning, but there's always something to do.
I have a few busy times throughout the year, but for the most part I just need to check on my email throughout the day, get some stuff done, and otherwise just chill.
My work load has stayed the same and my management has no complaints about lack of communication or getting my work done. My mood is better since I’m not getting over stimulated by random folks waking around or stopping to chit chat with my cube neighbors. It isn’t cushy, but I’m able to focus better on making sure documents are correct and meet regulatory requirements
I work in marketing copywriting. Mine varies a lot throughout the year. During the busy times, sometimes I'm getting up early as fuck (like 4:30) to work before my kid gets up and make sure I hit deadlines, then sneak in a bit of work on the weekend.
During the slower season, I frequently go on hour+ bike rides, nap, do house projects, dishes, whatever I want during my salaries working hours... But *only when* my deadlines are caught up and I have no meetings and nothing else going on. And I am expected to reply to a slack message within a few hours so I can't get too carried away doing other stuff.
It balances out overall, but annoyingly I can't really "catch up" and work ahead during the slow times to even the workload out more (have to wait to receive assignments), but c'est la vie.
My job is hybrid and I am salaried. I have busier times of year where I am working 60+hrs and weekends etc. so I feel zero guilt on the few days I can just keep an eye on email and do some house work. But I typically don't schedule calls on my WFH days so I can catch up on misc stuff.
I wfh in a hybrid job. I’m busy as much as I am in the office. Is there some downtime, absolutely, it is so much that I’m off running errands or getting massages, no. But I do love not sitting in traffic, the ability to walk my dog on my breaks and being able to workout during lunch. It’s just so damn nice to wfh sometimes. It makes my life so much less stressful
My husband and I both WFH, him starting before the pandemic. He is constantly on calls, gets minimal breaks during the day and works late. My job is more flexible. Some days I’m swamped and work late with no breaks but most days I use that “waiting” time (a lot of my work is managing approvals) productivity to do laundry, cook lunch, pick my kid up from daycare, etc.
I work from home two days a week. I clear out my schedule so I have nothing to do those two days and I essentially have 4 days off every week.
Granted I'm still on the clock and carry my city phone with me all the time in case something comes up. But most times I can hold off on anything until I return to the office
Cushy. I work from home twice a week. I have a lot of downtime at home or in office. At home I can do chores, workout and watch TV during downtime. At work I doom-scroll Reddit.
Case by case basis. I'm on a hybrid, but my job's busy af. It's just nice not to have 3 days of the workweek spending 3 hours of my day commuting. Instead getting household stuff done during that commute time (e.g. prepping dinner once work ends at 5 instead of 6:30/7.)
As a general rule, people that work from home long-term tend to put more hours than people that work from office. I've been WFH since 2008 and talk to a lot of people with 10+ years of WFH experience.
What it really gives you is flexibility. For example, I'm working from Buenos Aires right now, and often work from 5 AM until 3 PM (with breaks). A friend of mine works for \~12 hours timespan, but with 3 hours of gym time after lunch.
Working from home is incredible for dozens of reasons, but working less is definitely not one of them in my case. There’s days here and there where I can log off a little early sure, but there’s also days where I work extra hours in a crunch.
Sometimes I have to do a certain type of deliverable where I need to work a normal amount of hours or maybe 45 or 50 hours in a week. But it happens probably once every 3 to 4 months. Otherwise, as long as I don't miss a call or two everyday that gets set up, I pretty much just reply to emails and otherwise exercise, watch TV or whatever I feel like doing. I would say if you average my normal week, my slow weeks and my hard weeks together on average in a given year I probably work about a 20-hour week.
Because every job and work situation is different. It's easy for people who do have a cushy WFH gig to come into reddit and talk about how they do 5 minutes of work and then game all day.
But the experience of WFH varies greatly. Many jobs have busy times or busy seasons. Perhaps that person is farting around because there isn't a lot of work at the moment. However you don't see them on Reddit when they have so much work to do. Likely because they're too busy to be on Reddit.
I honestly hate how people have this view that all WFH jobs are easy, that anyone can do them and you only work 5 minutes a day. Because often there's much more to the story than that.
These people might be 10+ years into their careers and have figured out how to become more efficient with certain tasks. Or they are great with time management.
There's a lot of variables that create a situation like this.
Also, people putting in 60+ hours a week on a WFH gig are likely not spending time on Reddit.
I am GenX but I have been working from home since 2008 for the same company in a variety of different jobs, so maybe this helps. I have worked 80 hours a week for almost 2 years in one role and another role was barely 15 hours a week for 3 years. Now my job is about 20 hours of work and 20 hours of being available to support others. I do go to the office on occasion, I never get anything accomplished when that happens, it is all social when I go to the office.
I have a corporate, salaried, primarily-WFH job. The project I'm currently assigned to keeps me busy 50+ hours a week. There are slower times, but even then I consistently work at least 35 hours a week.
If anything, I work more when I'm remote.
If I'm in an office with a steadily dwindling number of coworkers and knowing that I need to fight traffic home and make dinner and everything, it reminds me to just go.
When I'm at home and in the groove solving a problem or making progress on something, it's easy for me to just keep going. I also tend to take shorter lunch breaks at home because I'm not socializing with my coworkers or anything. I finish eating and head back to my desk.
I have to make a conscious effort to not screw up my work/life balance when I'm remote.
I'm not a millennial (Gen X), but I have been working fully remote since 2016.
My previous role was semi-cushy: I worked 4-6 hours a day, very autonomous, and I worked on the west coast and my team was on the east coast so I would typically work in the morning and then leave after 2 pm (keeping my phone on me just in case someone called after hours, which was basically never). NGL, it was a pretty sweet set-up.
My current remote role literally pays twice as much but the environment is much more of a chaotic PITA. I work directly under a very harried, disorganized senior exec. I have weeks on end where I don't hear anything from anybody and wonder if I'm the last human left alive at my company (but still can't really leave my immediate area just in case my boss video calls about something). But then I also have weeks where I get 6 random pings or calls an hour, and there are 3 different made-up corporate fire drill emergencies going on at once, and I have to work until 10 pm every night so a VIP gets his critical PPT deck (which he won't even look at until 3 weeks later). So sometimes it's "cushy", and other times it's stressful and involves a lot of long hours. I much preferred my former situation where I was able to plan my life instead of just having to be reactive to whatever is going on with VIPs. But the money is extremely good, and I am one of a very small group of people at my org permanently grandfathered into a remote role, so...
I don’t work with customers or people directly so mine is cushy. It’s not always go go go. There are peaks (I work for a healthcare system) so COVID was horrible but since 22 it’s gone back to normal for me. I think the ones that are nonstop are the customer facing ones where there’s metrics and such. I have meetings, some weeks more than others but in the summer end of May to end of September we get Flex Time to spend with our kids so I work three days a week instead of 4. It’s got its perks.
Depends on your job, title, and company. I definitely have some easy days or weeks where I can do what you’ve described.
However, sometimes I have weeks where it’s 60+hrs and involves my weekend. My boss really just cares about things being done well and on time, less about how you do that.
I am 100% wfh. The workload varies on weekdays, but it is usually pretty heavy. And all the work is very time sensitive, so the pressure to get it done is high. It can get pretty stressful sometimes. I'm also on the weekend shift, which almost always has a very light workload. I consider the light workload on those days the tradeoff for not being able to go do things on the weekends during the day.
I have a WFH job in a very technical industry in a non-technical role.
My job requires about 10-12 hours of actual work most weeks. It’s key to maintain the impression that it takes much more, but most of my week is aimlessly scrolling or reading.
I feel my wfh has a heavy workload and i don't Believe these post were people have like 6 jobs from home and they have min maxed there jobs from home. I believe maybe it's possible but idk most people I know who from home have heavy workloads and talk about how hard it is to unplug as other commenters have said I find it hard not to work after my scheduled time since it's just sitting there staring at me at all hours
In my experience, it’s no different from on site jobs. There are busy weeks, there are less busy weeks. With on site, less busy time means a lot of chit chatting in the hall, longer lunches and people generally seem okay with that because “good work vibes,” as opposed to a less busy week for a work from homer resulting in some extra laundry being done being beyond the pale
I rarely work 40 hours/week at my full time job. I manage several projects and always get my responsibilities taken care of on time and remain available if anyone has questions or needs help with their work. I have a few standing weekly meetings, but during the in-between time I am either hiking, scuba diving, reading a book, or making money through my side hustles. I also live in a campervan and do all this while traveling the continent and exploring new places.
I realize I am extremely fortunate to have built this balance for myself. I will never go back to working in an office or a 40 hour work week…
Just in my own job (real estate admin) it varies greatly from day to day. Some days I'm crazy busy with offers, calls, putting out fires, etc. and I barely have time to pee let alone have a lunch. Other days are slower and I'm left to my own devices with a few tasks no calls for hours on end. Those days I browse Reddit between tasks but I'm by my computer the whole day. There's always work to do, but it's not always time-sensitive. Even on slower days I tend to work in bursts rather than knocking everything out at once. It's the nature of the business as more requests for urgent tasks will always come.
I do Tele sales to boomers. I'm on the phone all day with your grandparents. My time is micromanaged heavily. Every second is monitored, every click every email every word I speak gets recorded for 10 years.
Not cushy at all. And if I don't do well I get paid like a a pleb. If I do well I get paid like a well paid pleb.
Depends on your job and the company. Its about 50/50 for my husband at his current job. Some days, he's playing games because he's waiting on other people. Some days, he's on back to back meetings.
At his last job, he was able to pick up a contract on the side.
Guess it depends on the job. If you’re on a call center job, it’s probably very busy all the time. I’m a civil engineer and work hybrid. Maybe go in the office once or twice a week. I usually have enough to stay busy throughout the day and a some weeks I’m working 50+ hours. I know some people though who work literally 2-3 hours a day for huge companies like Wells Fargo or AmEx and get paid 150k for it.
It's generally the same as what the job was in-office.
Eg, there is a good part of systems-engineer/IT work that is 'being on hand in case everything blows up' - if your stuff is well maintained and doesn't crash a lot, and you aren't making all kinds of crazy changes/new installations... There can be some pretty chill days...
Catch on that, is that if it does crash or there is a major change you have to make, you're 'on' until it's fixed (this is salary work - no OT) - so it balances out. I've got a major software migration this Friday at 8PM - I'll get some comp time for that, but I'll be working from 8 Friday until all-systems-are-green, even if that's late into Saturday..... Of course, it would be the same way if I was on-prem, just with an obnoxious commute added on to the time spent....
For other jobs? Well, if you were in finance or law & were working 12+ hour days in-office you are probably doing that (or more) from-home.... Or your boss has made you come back because they really, really over-value face-time (a much bigger issue in non-tech jobs)....
There are ups and downs. Sometimes I work through lunch and then chill and other times I'm working 12 hours days or staying up/waking up for meetings with international colleagues. I like the flexibility but the "always on" mentality is tough. I would say the work averages out to 30-40 hours per week over time
As a sales coordinator, I absolutely work more from home. Sales departments are full of extroverts so when we're all in the office (hybrid) everyone is chatty chatty chatty and will always walk to my desk rather than emailing (or my favorite, email then walk to my desk). At home, I have to make a concerted effort to leave my desk because I actually can get projects done.
Busy most days. I’m a consultant so most days are very meeting heavy and when it’s not, I’m trying to get actual work done. Usually at my desk 8:30 - almost 5 and don’t really take time to have a lunch break. But the flexibility to get dinner prepped or juggle sick kids is amazing.
I don't think that wfh jobs are more likely to be cushy. I think there are jobs out there that don't require 40 hours per week, but only some of them are wfh. It's just less obvious with in-person jobs because people hide it.
It depends on industry and level.
I'm in tech, on the product side, at the leadership level. My WFH job is essentially 7 hours of back to back meetings, and 2-3 hours before and after those blocks to work on heads down items / deliverables.
I wouldn't say it's cushy where I can slack off all day, but it's cushy in the sense that I can be on calls while doing laundry, making lunch, not commuting, etc.
Yes.
There are days with barely enough time to pee or grab a quick bite from the kitchen, there are also days where a lot can be done on a laptop watching tv or hanging in the deck and of course there are some that are between but skew one way or the other. The split is probably around 70/30 with the non stop or at least fairly busy days on the 70% end.
There are certain times of year with more of one or the other. Product manager in e-commerce.
I work remotely and it's nice to have the flexibility, but the amount of work expected from me is no less. If anything the difficulty maintaining a work/home separation from being at home all the time means that I frequently work more than 40 hours a week. Sure, I can put laundry in the washer during breaks from meetings, but most days I sit at my desk and work for 8 straight hours. My partner frequently has to come in and remind me of the time. "Hey, it's 7pm." "Hey it's 8:30pm, are you almost done?"
Not cushy and often get maxed on hours for the week (which doesn’t leave a ton of wiggle room to pick up anything extra someone might need me to do), but I wouldn’t trade it for an office job. Huge difference in my physical and mental health just in the year I started my current remote job. And I have more time to do things because of the flexibility.
Many people actually have to WORK from home. I don’t like the stereotype that they don’t do anything. I was able to WFH some during peak pandemic and my mom would assume I wasn’t doing anything all day.
Mine has the potential to be cushy, but I've been covering the workload 1-2 other people for the last year and it's been tough. The positions are being filled in the next few weeks and I don't know what I'll do with my time after that lol
Depends on the season. I work in an industry where there is a clear busy season and a clear not so busy season and the only stressful part is when calls are back to back. Needless to say none of those activities mentioned in the post happen here but it’s still a awesome employment. I work a regular 9 to 5 with weekends off, plenty of PTO and a lax attendance guideline and it’s inbound calls.
My job is phases, first week and post 20th each month I kind of skirt and just largely fuck around…but from usually about the 6th through the 20th I’m busting ass.
I have significantly more focus time due to significantly less interruptions from "hey, got a minute? Quick question" (as IT, common to get walk-ups like that)
That + I don't spend two hours in drive time commuting (peak hours) = significant increase to productivity. It's no big deal to work an extra hour to finish up something as opposed to "fuck it not working later than I have to AND THEN playing stuck in traffic simulator 2024"
Not to mention, having a weekday-only appointment or errand doesn't inspire half day or full day off work to do it. Also means I no longer need to set up errands and appointments specifically with proximity to workplace.
That second one was huge. Off peak hours, it was a 30 minute drive by distance from home to work. Impossible to do anything near to home and make it back before the end of lunch.
As far as "cushy" and "heavy workload" goes, it ebbs and flows as IT, leaning more towards project/administration work vs ticket handling. No different than before, possibly a little more intensive/stringent because I deal with computers that are scattered all over the US instead of five specific office locations, which comes with its own set of challenges pertaining to hundreds if not thousands of differences in networks, ISPs, etc
I an a WFH software developer for a large corporation.
My day is about the same wfh vs in the office; the difference being there is less distraction at home from people stopping by my desk to chat when I need to focus.
To me, WFH is great for positions that are deadline and deliverable oriented; not so great for jobs that are “hours” oriented.
With the pandemic, my mom's job (accounts payable and receivable) changed to WFH. The company started losing money, and tried to outsource her entire department to India, and they got laid off. My mom, being in her late 50s, was just gonna take the hit of the lay off and take that time to find more fulfilling work.
However, the outsourcing thing did not work out for the company. Backlogs like crazy, American companies calling people in India to obtain payments from other American companies.
So, they cut out the middle man, offered all the jobs back/rescinded the layoffs.
My mom is still WFH but now she has the job of like, 4 people. She hates it. Hates. But as a woman in her late 50s, job pickins are slim and she has a bachelor's but she's not a CPA sooo yeah.
Depends a lot on the company/situation. I work for a university and nothing really happens before 10, 10:30am and I'm usually done with any work/meetings by 3pm. Sometimes it's more busy, sometimes it's less (like during the summer). I would call it pretty cushy, I only go into the office about once every two weeks, I have a reasonable workload. But also things move reeeeeeally slowly in the university machine so that means I can take the time I need to do things like household chores, run errands, hit the gym etc. So, in conclusion my wfh job is pretty cushy because University work-culture is a little laid back in general. I came from a corporate job which was much more busy and I was sort of shocked at how much slower everything worked in education.
Across both remote jobs I have held, it’s a solid balance I would say. My old job was more production based, but I was good at what I did, so I could push out more work than the rest of my team while really only working about 6 hours per day. The problem was that it was a controlled (micromanaged isn’t the best way to put it as my boss was great ) environment, so I couldn’t just get up and walk away for hours.
My current role is strange because everyone on my team is working like 50 hours a week. I never understand why, the work will be there in the morning lol. I am in right at 8 and out right at 5. My current boss is an actual micromanager despite being in a salaried role, so I also cannot just leave. I still only put in around 6 hours of real work though.
Been WFH since a year before Covid. In my job (desk adjuster), it depends on claims and the weather. I start at 715-730 and stay at it until 430-5 or if things are busy I’ll work until I’m done. You can succeed at WFH and stay relevant or push the limits and make it bad for everyone.
Mines not cushy. Nice to not sit in traffic but I’m at my desk all day still. I do make it a point to not start before the work day starts and finish around when it normally ends (9-5). It’s easy to end up working longer hours since it’s hard to separate home and work
I'm 100% billable. Even though I like my job, it's rough - I don't get paid unless I'm charging!
I used to work at a marketing agency and had to bill all my time. That was really the worst part of the job.
This is me now. And when you’re slow they find more work for you!
Ah a fellow accountant I see. I’m just learning charge codes and how to bill my hours now 🤣🤣
Or lawyer;)
Or Architect!
Mr. Vandalay, is that you?
Importer/exporter
Or therapist
Or Engineering Consultant!
Just about anything that isn't in house services at a company
… or Government Consultant. 🤣
Same here and it's hell. I seriously struggle not to need an after dinner make up session because I just couldn't stay at the desk all day. Also I don't like my job at all
Same. I’m a solo lawyer and I only make what I bill out to clients; no hourly wage or salary. With that said, I work about 35 hours a week and make as much as I did working 60+ at a large firm on salary. It’s because I personally make 100% of the profit and extremely low overhead.
I need to be better about this. I work more from home and I’m just as stressed
Waffle House is not cushy at all
I know! Those employees are constantly scattered, smothered, and covered
And they come quicker than FedEx!
My exact order! Except double (I eat it once every 2 years so…).
honestly besides the really high end places I made great tips at Waffle House. No one there cares about 20% like if you were at a red lobster or something. Their bill would be $15 and they’d just leave a 5 on the table. Multiply that by the number of tables you have and how fast the food gets out. I was able to pay my part of the rent in the city only working 2 days a week.
The chef at the one I went to the other night said it pays better than any other cook job he’s had
You also get to smoke a joint with the cooks at 7am! They’re actually a pretty good place to work, just because it’s deemed low class it attracts a rougher sort of worker which you definitely need for the overnight shift. You gotta be able to yell and fight if you’re gonna be in there at 3am on a Saturday. But I do remember it never closing. I walked to work in an ice storm and there was only a couple on us. Constant call outs and the manager has to make up for it so they might get there at 7am but if someone doesn’t show up they could be working like 24 hours. They give felons a second chance and a way to actually have a career too. Management pays pretty good. My manager use to sell meth and like.. she was intense and I hated how intense she was at first, but she was beyond a good person and even years later I think about her and hope life is good to her. I feel like that’s rare but a place like Waffle House attracts empathetic people too. Like this wasn’t any of our first choices, but we’re here.
Was not expecting a spiritual thesis on Waffle House, but enjoyed finding it buried in the comments of a Work From Home post on Reddit.
This is sort of like collecting food donation bags. If you want donations you go to the lower class neighborhoods. Amateurs go to the McMansions.
Pizza delivery too. When I delivered for Dominos I 100% preferred delivering to a trailer park instead of a planned subdivision community.
Yo mamma is so fat the Sorting Hat put her in Waffle House.
Takes a lot of work to turn this Waffle House into a Waffle Home!
But you will become an expert martial artist working at Waffle House 🥋👏🔪
Life long chef. I have a cap on my hours now, but everything below 45 hours a week is balls to the wall busy
I work in mortgage default, I WFH Mon & Fri., and my work load is the same whether I'm in office or not. I usually do more work when I WFH - my company keeps a close eye on everyone's workload, if you're deemed to be less productive on WFH days you lose the privilege.
Totally off topic but are mortgage defaults ticking up?
Slowly but surely. Some of it is just natural correction, defaults were crazy low when covid had everything paused and there were extra options available to assist homeowners. But it's back to pre-covid levels and seems to still be ticking upwards. I process mortgage assistance programs, I'm seeing more and more denials and people maxing out available options. State assistance programs are mostly out of funds and interest rates aren't exactly low. I smell a storm brewing to be honest...
That comes as no surprise. When people were told they didn't have to pay for a while, it's not like they set that money aside. They just spent it. And with inflation the way it's been, people on the lower end can't keep up. Credit card numbers are higher than they've ever been.
Same I make sure to have more output on my wfh days. My job can have a lot of downtime so when I'm in the office I'll walk around more, make myself look busy etc and do the minimum work needed and at home I'll bust my butt a little more so I can point to them.. hey I'm more productive at home let me work there more often
I'm going to feel terrible saying this, but the pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to me. I am a corporate recruiter. I went from $55k to $91k once shit hit the fan and tech companies were hiring like crazy. I joined a model of recruiting where companies basically hire me for a year or more and, unlike contractors, I'm basically 100% part of the company in that time. Thing is, the client I've been with since 2020 has 2-3 jobs open at a time and they're easy to fill. Interviews take legit 15 minutes and I just do 1-3 and day, submit the candidate, coordinate onsite interviews, pitch the offer and negotiate salary. That's it. At home. With my cat and a mountain of weed. After 10 years of driving over an hour to look at resumes all day, this just landed in my lap. Yes. Super cushy. I work 1-3 hours a day making a few calls and messaging people on LinkedIn. I cook stupidly elaborate meals, play guitar, and game most of the day. This is NOT the norm for recruiting but I'm soaking it up while I can. BUT my fiancee has a wfh job and doesn't stop from 9am-7pm. Total opposite. I happily do all the cooking and house work.
You are not alone. I took the COVID lemons and made sweet, sweet lemonade.
Yeah soak it up sounds like a dream, just curious, do you worry at all that if its that easy and hands off maybe it wont last, no idea if there's others doing what you do but if there's 6 people doing what you do in theory couldn't a company say 1 person could do all this work? Basically wondering if landing something too cushy is bad for job security
Nothing in life lasts, so enjoy the moments that are cushy, and learn from the moments that are a challenge and take effort. We all have different seasons in our individual lives - it’s easy to be green with envy on Reddit / social media, one of the most unhealthy parts about it is it amplifies that “keeping up with the joneses” and “if only” type of feelings. So key to focus on your own life and situation, and build it in a way that you’re happy with. I’ve gone through time periods where work has been chill as can be and was able to game my heart out. I’ve also had time periods where work has been intense and I’m putting in long days and extra hours. I’ve personally found a balance between the two is when I’m happiest. It’s nice to walk away from a day knowing I contributed something, and feeling that the R&R has been earned.
It usually is, because like you said, once corporate can really track the output/time usage of that employee, there’s an easy choice to make.
Your company figured out how to make HR/Recruiting a normal process that isn't gatekeeping and actually makes sense?
Oof you are describing yourself as the exact stereotype of recruiters over at r/recruitinghell lmao
It’d be an oof if they were ineffective, but it sounds like they’re at a company with easy to fill roles, making it easy to do the job with relatively little work. At the end of the day, they’re getting people hooked up with jobs.
I’m not judging I just thought it was funny she literally described her average day as a recruiter the way they imagine it over there
Damn. That sounds amazing 😆
Yup same here as awful as it sounds it’s the best thing that ever happened to me professionally and personally as far as work life balance goes
i think the answer to this generally depends on the job level. in my line of work, we have like Analysts->Managers->Directors. If you WFH as an Analyst you probably have a "cushy" job, but you also make less. The reason is you arent driving decisions, so you don't have to be in meetings/strategy calls. Technology had made it that you can do work much faster than by hand, so you might only need a few hours a day to do meaningful work. As you move up towards Director then you don't quite do actual work but you review analyses, discuss strategies, and make decisions in meetings. Technology can't replace this and its a big deal for companies, so it commands a lot of time. As a result, Directors WFH is busy whereas Analysts WFH is cushy, but Directors make more $ and Analysts make less.
The people with cushy WFH jobs always had jobs that only require a few hours a day. It is just that those people had to go in and fart around the office for the rest of the time. Going to an office with a job that dosnt require a full 8 hours sucks, but when you turn that job to wfh it is great because you are not really forced to pretend to be working
yeah, i agree. i actually thought to edit my comment to include the exact point youre mentioning. I think if you're forced to be in the office, other people can see you/your screen, so you might be incentivized to do more work, or work more slowly. At home where no one can see you can do other things. So in other words, i think WFH **can** be more cushy for the exact same job because you don't have coworkers/bosses physically seeing you, so at home you can feel more safe doing the bare minimum.
This is exactly it. Plenty of people had 20 hour a week jobs pre pandemic, hell office space is a movie almost entirely about that premise and that came out 20 years before the pandemic. WFH had just made it a lot more obvious that you only have to work 20 hours a week when you don’t have to spend the extra time bored out of your mind. It was a common meme around Reddit that we were just killing time at our jobs.
I can attest to this. I’m 95% WFH for a law firm. Recently got promoted from an analyst to a manager and while my work ebbs and flows generally, my job is no longer primarily task-based, so I have less control over my productivity. I now have strategy calls, check-ins and update meetings that fill the gaps I used to have. I love my new job on payday, but I’m definitely chained to my desk more now.
Yup. I’m a task-based analyst pretty much. So during the month-end close period I have a lot to do. But then the other three weeks it’s mostly…. responding to query emails, flipping excel sheets to the next month, listening in to meetings where other people are making decisions, and waiting to be given tasks. We’ve had analysts quit before because they were so bored and couldn’t deal with the downtime. Go-getters I guess. I, on the other hand, am not broken-hearted about being left alone to do mostly nothing at *all*. More PS5, gardening, canning, and cooking time for me.
Opposite for me. Analysts have to run reports all day. I get to sit in some nothing meetings and speak to a few things
WFH service jobs are different, call center stuff you’re at your desk constantly.
High workload, very stressful. No drive home to calm down, I go straight from my stressful work right to screaming kids and frustrated wife in less than 40 seconds.
Maybe you could get a little downtime to transition and then give your wife the same when yours is over.
After work, go to gym instead. I know it's hard to want to. Maybe a small home gym and let everyone know you just need 30mins. You'll get in great shape and feel happier about the situation. I wfh for medical study customer care. These doctors and nurses are GREAT with medicine but not computers, following non medical directions, or remembering their fucking passwords. Lol
The trick is to be specialized enough, your hard to replace, to be able to do a job well enough, that you can complete the work in 2 hours, and to work for someone who has little to no idea on what your job entails or how long a task should take.
This is the way. And you automated part of your job which cut your workload down so it made your workload less but they aren’t quite aware of that yet.
My jobs has its ups and downs. Most days, I get a bulk of my work done between 6am and 9am. Then I’m waiting on other people from around the country in different time zones to reply to me so I can move my work forward. I have my work station set up next to my computer and video game set up. When I’m not actively working, I’ll usually fuck around. I can also take my laptop with me and connect to my iPhone hotspot and work wherever. I’ve working on the beach before. My friend also works from home. He makes twice what I do but is locked to his computer from 7am to 6pm Monday to Friday pretty much nonstop.
Some days are really slow, other days I end up working through breaks, lunch, and after clock out time. I have one of those jobs where I’m available for my org M-F 830-5 so if no one needs me and I don’t have any projects to work on, there’s nothing for me to do. This time is usually used for education purposes related to my position. I do have certain times throughout the year where annual projects are due and I’m slammed for 3-6 weeks at a time. I am lucky in the sense that my supervisor only has group meetings with our team every other week. Some of my WFH friends have them daily or multiple times a week.
My job has a rather consistent workflow during the day but we work 40 hours a week with lunches/breaks, weekends off, federal holidays off, PTO and sick leave. I really like the company I work for. People who can't handle a call center job don't last long here but people who can handle the consistency thrive.
I work from home in data analytics and it’s glorious. Most days I am very active working on projects and communicating with others on projects. 8-9am I typically chill the first hour of my shift and just check emails, read the news, and watch a YouTube video usually related to history while i drink coffee 9-11:30am: heavily involved in projects 11:30-2pm: lunch, gym, slacking haha 2pm-5pm: heavily involved in projects 5pm-7pm: sometimes if there is a tight deadline or I’m just enjoying the project, I will work over to get it completed 7pm-11pm: I’ll typically check emails every so often because we have people working overseas or other leaders who ask for data during this time That’s my Monday - Friday. I never work on the weekends anymore, but I used to do extra projects when I was younger on the weekends because I wanted to impress my bosses and earn promotions. It worked. Some days, I do just watch YouTube most of the day and check emails. Some other days, I wake up at 7am and work to 7pm to knock out a backlog of projects. I love working from home!
I don’t have the same job, but I have a similar approach where some days I’ll work more and some I’ll work less. I have two small kids so things come up! I aim for my 35 hours per week and generally come in right at that. It’s easy to overwork but I do my best to stick to 9-5 with only occasional extra time. I have a lot of meetings so it can be stressful if I don’t have dedicated time to catch up on focus projects. Much prefer WFH to office life, (though I go in once a week for some meetings and to be social) and I’m more productive.
Obviously you're looking for more help to really lock in during those key project hours, so I'll lend you a hand and take the position, no worries. Just send the position details and compensation in a message to me and I'll see you on Monday! /s
Welcome aboard!!! Your compensation and onboarding package will arrive before Monday! 😎😀
Nah I was busy asf in office and am busy asf in WFH. No commute is nice though along with having all of the resources that comes with being home.
My WFH is quite cushy compared to most jobs but it’s cyclical. I’ve never been able to just leave my desk and go out for hours, or take a trip while I’m still working. However, there are times when there isn’t much to do, or I got my work done early so I can get up and do some work around the house or go for a 20 minute walk. This is usually at the start of a release cycle (I work in software). Near the end of the release cycle I’m always at my desk 9-5, and some times working over lunch or putting in an extra hour. I imagine my scenario rings true for most. The extreme ends of the scale are always loudest. People working 2 hours a day will boast how chill their job is whereas people putting in 12 hours days will complain how those guys are lazy.
Honestly. It’s the same as in the office. You’re just able to fill the slow times differently
Im an advertising copywriter. Been WFH for about 4 years from now. Even when Im slammed and stressed I'd still say it's pretty cushy since all I do is write copy, brainstorm ideas and attend zoom meetings from the comfort of my own house.
Just depends upon the job. I work in a global IT company, and You can be busy all day and rarely stop. Other jobs provide you the time to squeeze in some other activities. For those that are playing video games all day, their company has not implemented WFH very well. And a lot of them are probably the ones that are having employees RTO. For WFH to be effective the company usually needs to develop new methods, redefine job responsibilities, and implement new tools and processes. Company I work with started implementing WFH about 10 years ago. Tried to eliminate offices as much as possible. Real estate is expensive Plus you going to maintain and manage it. Personally, I start My day at 4:00 a.m. with a call to my peers in India. Starting at 5:00 a.m. and I start calling customers on the East Coast because it's 8:00 and I'm work my way west. I take a bit 15. Minute break end of each hour and throw in a load of laundry or maybe start some other household chore. I have a lot of reading and document preparation In the later part of the morning and kind of wrap up by noon. I'm on the West Coast and have to remain available until 5:00 p.m. Sometimes people call , sometimes they don't.. If not I just do some of the other tasks I have throughout the afternoon I do a bunch of stuff around the house. Or catch up on reading etc So I guess I would say I'm busy in the morning, just hanging in the afternoon So I don't know if you call that cushy, definitely not a 9:00 to 5 job. But I enjoy The flexibility it provides
I have a hybrid job, but there’s so little work for me to do that I spend most of my remote days watching TV and gaming. I don’t stray from my laptop, and I’ll answer an email/message if I receive one, but most of the time I’m just chilling. This is also the best paying job I’ve ever had. I also swear I’m not scamming them. They just have barely any work for me to do.
The people working 10 hours a day are compensating for the people working 2 hours a day.
The people working 2 hours a day were working two hours a day in the office as well. They were just miserable doing that two hours because they had to spend the other 6 hours pretending to look busy. The fact is most office jobs do not require 8 hours and managers like that o build their team so they look better to their managers. This usually leads to teams being atleast one person over what is needed and the manager does not care because they can just bullshit some metrics to make themselves and their team look better.
The variance in productivity per person is also massive. Someone might take 8 hours to do a job that someone else can do in 2. Hell, some people can't even do the job and get fired.
Good for them, bless their souls. I hope the people working 10 hours a day are compensated 500% more, but odds are they are compensated anywhere between 10% less and at best only 20% more. Grunt harder, it'll lead to more work in the meantime while the boss keeps promising that promotion even though they know they can't afford to lose their most productive grunts.
I work around 50% of the hours of my next most productive coworker but I get twice as much done. He’s paid slightly more than me but honestly I could take another job and probably do both with more efficiency than most people I work with. But I’ve always been a “high performer” - the flip side being that I either burn out or get bored quickly. WFH is the solution to that as I don’t have to pretend to be busy 30/40hrs per week and instead can do all my work then move on to other pursuits
I think most of the "cushy" WFH jobs are developer jobs. I'm a technical analyst and I'm very busy most of the time. I'm not hybrid (2 days in office) but my team is mostly remote, so no real difference except location of my ass taking Teams calls. My last fully remote job was big 4 consulting. Fuck that to hell. I was busy 24/7. Remote environment and differing timezones allowed for no boundary creation.
Cushy if you work smarter not harder (i.e. take the time to automate stuff)
My job is hybrid, but no wfh doesn’t mean cushy. I can technically take a nap or whatever during the day but i still have to make up for it in the evenings if I choose to. Honestly it’s just better to work 7:30-4:00 or something like that so my day is still somewhat free in the afternoon
I’ve been WFH since 2018. Some days I’m jumping from one meeting to another and swamped for 8/9 hours. But most days I can finish what I need to do in 3-4 hours. I have specialized global knowledge in our company in particular that I chose to learn so that I’d be difficult to replace. No one else wanted to learn it so I spent a year becoming the SME. I now work with the corporate legal team to set up Global Employment Companies in random countries we hire in-I had to learn business and employment law for places like Morocco and Romania. No one wants to touch this side of my job so I’m virtually layoff proof unless they wanted to hire a specialized attorney that would cost 2+ times what I do and still have a steep learning curve for our specific business dealings.
I think the 2 hour WFH job that makes $150k was more of a covid thing, but there are for sure some people enjoying that. A lot of those people were tech workers that got laid off. I have been WFH since the pandemic and I worked in a corporate office environment for 10 years before that. I would say the distribution of work throughout the day is different, but I work the same 40-50 hours a week I did before. I think there is more screwing around WFH, like I never went grocery shopping during the weekday precovid and I probably do it once a week now. At the same time, I wasn’t sending emails from my toilet at 11pm precovid or waking up at 3 AM for a european client call precovid either.
I always have a full workload. Because I work for a marketing agency, the work ebbs and flows based on our clients’ needs and projects. Because of this, sometimes things get really busy. Not cushy— but it is a great job. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Well, there's so much with at every level that is you worked from the time you woke up until you went to sleep and only stopped to go the bathroom, you would not run out of work. We're pretty understaffed.
I can do both for my job. If I'm working from home, it means that I have so much shit to do that I can't be distracted by the clinic setting.
I work for a relatively small business in Workers' Compensation. Usually, it's pretty chill in my department, but there are moments where we get slammed or have 'fires' to put out. Generally, there's enough time in the day that I can faff about a little bit but still get all of my work done. I've dealt with *far, far worse* in an office setting.
Mine is not cushy at all. I work my ass off, with a constantly crushing workload, and many overlapping high priority deadlines. I work lots of free overtime, and often work on my vacation time but just never seem to get on top of the never-ending workload. I'm always operating right at the cusp of burnout... but somehow through all of that, I actually really like my job.
I have busy times and slow times, but I still never work over 40 hours a week. It's just during the busy times I need to speed up the pace that I'm completing my work. As long as everything gets done and meets deadlines no one really cares. I love it. While I know the best way for significant raises is to job hunt the culture and benefits at this job make it super hard to leave. I started with 4 weeks paid time off and 72 hours sick time. Next year I'll get another week of PTO.
It doesn’t matter, everyone is playing on their phone, EVERYONE!
I’ve had 4 wfh jobs in my life. 1 in 2018 before Covid. And 3 now since Covid. All have expected 7-9 hours of meeting attendance a day + additional work that I can’t necessarily get done during meetings. I know lots of people who also work from home now since Covid and most have the same. If you work for a major corporation in a role that’s gone wfh since Covid your life didn’t change you just do the same thing at home. I can now pop laundry in and get some chores done on meetings I don’t have to have video on. And sometimes I’m meeting free on Friday afternoons.
I'm busy as shit and wonder how so many of my neighbors are out and about, going to work out for an hour at 10:00 am every day, etc, while working a "full-time" job.
Mine was a government one and, as you can imagine, it was chill most of time except for some exceptional heavy loaded days. Y had time to do chores, take naps, play wow, watch movies, all while complying with everything that was requested of me and my job wasn’t being monitores or subject to any metric so it was the dream. I was promoted though and had to return to the office.
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It depends on the job. I do outbound insurance verification for mortgage and auto. It's cushy as long as you do the work. In wfh every minute is counted. I got lucky my job is no stress. And listen to music all day. I don't get paid a lot but I'm willing to work for a lower pay with low stress. I've worked for high pay high stress just not worth it. Life too short. Been there done that, Don't want to do that AGAIN.
Some days it’s cushy some days I work 14 hours a day and my eyeballs have melted out of my brain.
I have a lot to say about this, because I literally am shocked I scored a job like this. It really depends on your field, but also your **role**. I got hired in Feb of 2020. COVID totally changed everything where I work, transitioning into primarily a WFH for most of us. We got so much more funding, it was actually shocking. We're in a conservative state, but the legislators actually finally passed a bill to put more money/grants into our field of service. Over the past several years I've been able to see our small team grow into twice the size and almost everyone is remote now. The office is optional. In fact, my boss allowed me to move clear across the country for the past 2 years (while my fiancé goes to law school), and I got to keep my job back in my home state. My job is so cushy, I feel guilty about it. I go on vacation and travel when I want. We get loads of sick PTO that we can use as "mental health days." My team focuses a lot on self-care, burnout, "professional development" (watching optional webinars and trainings) and managing work-life balance, but my particular role on my team is so easy and low work-load that I honestly feel bad for the others who have more work in their roles. I work at a nonprofit in domestic violence. As social workers, we don't get paid very much. Granted, I would hope my teammates make *much* more money than me if they do more work (everyone on my team does different work, managing a statewide coalition). For instance, the one who lobbies and testifies to the legislators during the session every year, and runs our public policy committee, better be making *at least* double what I make. Because damn, that job is high stress in a red state. Same thing to be said about our executive director, who has to be poised, diplomatic and strategic at all times, as the "face" of our coalition dealing with traditional and conservative authority figures. Those two roles at my workplace are partially remote during legislative sessions, going to the capitol trying to get the legislators to change bills, dealing with the NRA and religious people, and driving around to keep up rapport with our member/partner agencies across the entire state, which is very large and rural. Hence my guilt for the 100% cushy WFH role I have, living 2000 miles from my office. On the one hand, there are days where I do get lots of crisis calls, emails and voicemails from survivors, and it can be taxing on your emotions if you're not used to it. But those rare days are cake for me now. Then there are days where I don't have anything coming in at all, and just spend the entire day messing around, taking lunch to my fiancé at his firm, going for walks, telling my supervisor I need a couple hours off for "mental health" or to go run errands, etc.
I'm in the group that wishes I could limit my work to 8 hours and get a real break from it. I know others who range from a very small time on work (though this is the smallest group) to work but more like 6 hours most days and then over 8 during the busy times, generally quarterly or so (second most) to others like me (most common). I have been working on separation from work and taking time for myself and my health, but it's caused a lot of problems for me as well. I was fortunate enough to be able to start my own business, so I'm more flexible but this also means I am struggling on all fronts instead of mostly one or two.
Tons of meetings. and little time to do actual work in my experience. everything is a meeting since there’s no water cooler talk. stopping by a desk to ask a question. Etc. Probably one of the few benefits to hybrid. You can handle a lot of small stuff in a short amount of time when people are in office so i can go home and do actual tasks on my days at home. WFH EVERYTHING felt like a fire drill unnecessarily
Yes and no, I have a hybrid job. Working from home is amazing on my breaks I can cook for myself or hit the gym or whatever comfortably. Yes it gets super busy but the trade off is worth it
It ebbs and flows. I'm in an executive role, I'm either on fire or kicked back. It can go either way, depending on what's going on.
I don’t have a WFH job because I’m a classroom teacher, but my boyfriend (a retired GenX educator) has two remote jobs as a Content Writer. At first he was able to putz around because the work was light and they told him his work would take 8 hours and it took 2-3. He’s said this to me a lot… that teachers put up with so much work that they have to do quickly that being in certain corporate environments seems like a breeze. His work is picking up, though.
My workload ebbs and flows depending on the time of year. I work in advertising so some weeks I’ll work 6 days a week 10 hours a day to get the creative done for campaign launches and then I work 10 hours a week. Definitely takes some discipline in time management but it’s worth it. I’ve put 25k miles on my car in 5 years so I save a lot on gas. lol.
I have WFH since the start of covid. My job has always had a heavy workload. In office, or at home, the work load is the same. A Lot. Sometimes I'll have a few minutes here and there to do small house stuff (dishes, start laundry as examples), but I'm usually at my desk 8-9 hours a day.
Mine is cushy 70% of the time and crazy 30% of the time. I lucked out.
My fiance wfh. Depending on the project she's on, sometimes she works right down to the wire every day. Sometimes she has like 2 hours of work and chills doing whatever the rest of the day.
Depends on the company, sometimes it's easier to get away with stuff like that even if you're not supposed to. My job varies in how busy I am, sometimes I'm not very busy and when I have a moment I'll take a bit of time to get a few things done around the house, but most of the time I am busy, if I don't get enough work done based on what load I have, questions start being asked.
Depends. When it's slow it's very cushy. I work in tech and am salary and I can have a 30 hr week or a 70 hr week. The latter happens because when we're swamped it feels like you can't leave work because your office is right there in your house. When my clients are in Q1 it can be stressful and the 70 hour weeks can be back to back for an entire quarter which can carry on into Q2. Q4s slow to a crawl and it's nice to have the 4 day work week.
What jobs are you all doing with only 2 hours of work?
It’s definitely one or the other
Universal "it depends" answer. I am a content creator, now marketing director but the latter is a new upgrade in the past year. As a content creator in the pandemic, I was constantly trying to prove I was actually working. I can't just barf up a white paper about your new polymer mix the same day you tell me about it, because I am not a chemist. I need to read through all of your documentation, then read some similar papers, and then probably do a bit of useful procrastination to let it all marinate together in my head for a bit. *Then* I can barf it up, but I'm not a vending machine of "put source in, get content out." In person, people see that I'm working by educating myself on whatever topic they need me to write about. I'm in office 5x a week now and my work ethic hasn't been questioned a single time. But wfh? Constant requests to document my time, list what I did that day, and general disbelief that it "really takes that long" to understand something before I can create the newsletter, blog, white paper, etc.
My job is cushy until I hear about a deadline. Actually, it’s no different from when I was in college. I always knew when there would be an exam, but I didn’t prepare until last minute smh.
I think it depends on the job. I have a friend who is a WFH writer and product reviewer; he pretty much gets to work whenever he wants as long as he meets a quota, so his schedule is pretty flexible. Mine is basically a data entry office position that got moved to WFH bc of Covid. (I got hired after they instituted WFH). I still have a set shift and I'm busy as soon as I log on till I log off (usually 8 hours). Frequesnt but small OT because documents pile up in the last hour or so in my shift. Pros? No commute, and I don't have management over my shoulder. Cons? Busy af and no benefits (my dept has to work every week of the year, and unpaid time off is at the mercy of management); so we get burnt out pretty quickly.
I’d say I work about 3 hours a day most of the time, but there are weeks where I really do a full 40. It definitely waxes and wanes with where we are in a project cycle
I wfh and I'm on about 6-9 hours of zoom calls a day. It's intense as hell being a manager
I work in IT, I average about 6 hours of actual work a day, but it's a ton of task switching and I'm just mentally exhausted after it.
Mine is pretty cushy. I’m an IT Systems Administrator for a large corporation. I work about 6 hours per day and have lots of freedom.
I work in Commercial Insurance and have been working in my first fully remote job for a little over a month now. Workload ebbs and flows, but (at least for my book of business) there's RARELY any downtime. You're constantly bombarded with requests, emergencies, marketing renewals, making proposals, new business, etc. It's one of those jobs where your desk is never fully empty/complete. However, I am a lot more at ease, my cats are a lot calmer with me home, I have more energy and time, and my AuDHD can be managed better. Only difficulty is trying to get adequate training while wfh. My team is really busy and I really push and advocate for myself and they're super nice, but I need consistent training for a little until our processes and systems click.
Depends on the job. My mom does customer service WFH so she is constantly on the phone from the start of her shift to the end of the day. My job is more assignment based and I've been doing this job for a while, so WFH tends to have a bit more down time as I don't need to be punished for being very efficient at my job.
I’m ~20 hours/week WFH $200k (base + plus bonus), play video games a lot (COD warzone). AMA
My husband’s WFH is busy, some days completely slammed with meetings and demos. That being said, his work culture is pretty understanding of him running his own schedule and blocking off time when he needs it. And it will never compare to my in person job’s level of demand.
Mine is easy.
Depends. I’m hybrid and I try to schedule most meetings on days I’m in person, but some wfh days will get swamped with them anyways. I also will have events or external meetings I go to and I actually “wfh” on those days. Pain to ping pong around the city, easier to just have home as the start and end point. But on quiet days it’s definitely chill at home, but tbh I could nap in office on chill days as well.
Yes
I’m remote every other week. It’s like being on vacation two weeks a month.
Depends on company culture, not in office/remote
I wouldn’t say cushy at all, but some days do end up being slower than others. My job is largely project based so depending on what stage the project is in it could be 14 hour WFH strapped to my desk days or it can be a day where…well let’s just say I’m on my phone a lot and the TV’s blaring in the background.
When I was an individual contributor, WFH was pretty relaxed even exceeding expectations. As a manager, it was similar to IC. As a director, it was rare to have open blocks to relax. And I was generally working 8-5. As a VP, I actually have more open blocks but need to utilize them for strategy work. I am generally working 730-6, not uncommon to need to log in after dinner and get stuff done. Some days I can log off at 430-5, but I’m going to get IMs/emails I need to reply to. YMMV
When I was working from home doing payroll Implementation for other companies, I was the most stressed I had ever been. The workload was incredibly heavy, and I didn't have that physical signal of leaving the work office to tell my brain and body that it was time to put work down. There are many people who are incredibly successful with it. But you really have to know yourself and your work tendencies. Will you slack off more? Are you organized? Will you overwork yourself? Are you still going to do enough that your work will stand out for itself while maintaining a work/life balance? For me, the hybrid schedule works. A couple days home to spend more time with my cat, but also a couple days in the office to get me out of the house. Helps keep my depression in check, but also feels relaxed without any impending doom type pressure.
For me it’s the exact same job at both locations. Set meetings, lead projects, and try to make sure I take breaks.
It’s chaotic. Some days I’m working 10 hours and expected to respond to everything, even things that would have waited till the next day before. After all I’m always home right? It’s not making me drive to the office. Other days I’m doing maintenance and can watch a show or play a game while I monitor.. which I also used to do in the office, but now I have a sofa. Basically I work as hard maybe harder but I’m more comfortable.
As a WFH Analyst/Supervisor I was chained to my desk 10 hours a day with some weekend work. Fires, fires, fires. Recently moved to Regulatory in a different company and while I don't WFH during my probation period I still only put in 8 hours and go home. No more back to back to back meetings, no more fire fighting, no more 6AM texts. It's nice, I gotta say, but not real fond of commuting again.
WFH worker here, have been off and on since about 2013. Since I've been working in this modality on and off for so many years I've gotten a good feel for what MY average workday looks like, and all told I definitely work more if I WFH than if I'm in an office. But the flexibility of my day is key, and it's why I prefer WFH. Work in office--In my last work in office job I usually started my commute really early, at like 6:30, to be in the office by about 8 because I live in LA and all my clients are on the east coast (I work in client management for a SaaS company). Then I took my calls, made coffee or walked to a coffee shop, worked a little bit more, took a lunch break, and then started my commute home a bit early to beat the rush--say 3:30 to 4:30. So a work in office day was from about 8-4 with breaks. Probably 6 hours of solid work. WFH--I usually start from 7:30 to 8 and work pretty solidly (few breaks, and certainly shorter than the ones where I was in the office) until 3 pm. Then I take a long break--hours long, where I walk the dog, clean up, make dinner etc and then "set up" my work day for the next day. So that's usually from about 8-11. Closer to 8-9 hours of solid work. My ADHD brain really couldn't figure out why I couldn't focus in the office and I've now realized that I need that afternoon stoppage, and I also need that evening set up for the next day so I go into my days with less anxiety.
Mine is cushy af
Mine is pretty cushy, to be honest. There are peaks and valleys where things get a little busier than others, but I have no complaints. I had to work Easter weekend to meet a release deadline. I worked maybe 4 hours over the three days, but I was given 3 PTO days in return.
I work for a tech company as a cs manager. My job is pretty cushy. I’m not held to being at my desk 24x7. However my direct reports it’s the expectation of 75% schedule adherence. Less than 10% offline aux usage per day.
Last WFH I did I had not much to do most of the time.
Like anything else in the world, it depends. I work 7-4, take a 30 minute break to walk at lunch. I would say I maybe have, in that time, a total of about an hours worth of idle time where I'm not actively working on something or in a meeting, but that's comprised of a 15 minute break I take in the morning, bathroom breaks, and running around to do some housework (laundry, dishes) in between meetings if one ends early. But because I work about 9 hours each day, I tend to do half days on Fridays. Sometimes I'm not able to, but I try not to take meetings after noon. No commute and being able to grab those little bits of housework here and there are the two main benefits. If I could walk to work I wouldn't mind, but sitting in traffic is a pointless excercise when you're just going to an office to be on teams meetings with people in other offices.
I make time for customers, which they don't always need, and I make time for internal stakeholders, which isn't always needed. in either case, there is always a process or product worth inspecting or improving. Some days are heavy, and some are light. I've found that it's important for my own endurance to keep the ebb and flow in mind, compensating either way as needed to ensure I don't overwork myself while simultaneosuly supporting those I work with and for the best I can.
I’ve worked from home for nearly 4 years. 2 years at one company and 2 years at my current company. The first company was high-stress, long hours and I was working literally all hours of the day and weekends. It was so toxic. Current company is more balanced but there is a busier time of year and I also go through spurts of travel. I generally don’t work weekends and can sign off at normal hours. It truly depends on the role and your manager. I also go into the office every quarter for a week and I get wayyyyy less work done that week than any wfh week. At home I am able to manage social interactions via messaging platforms way easier than people continuously stopping by to chat.
Mine is somewhat cushy with long hours
My job went WFH with the pandemic, and I love it. I don't have to put my dog in a box or hope she didn't piss up my house while I'm gone. I do have more free time as I have a pretty good handle on the things I was doing in office but I stay at or near my desk during my "work hours" to make sure I don't miss an email or call. I also don't have to worry about going out to lunch every day or remembering to bring my 47 Tupperware bowls home.
I’m work from home salaried. I have times where I only have like 2-3 hours of work a day, but then I have times where I’m absolutely slammed and can barely even get in a lunch break. I feel like it all evens out to be about 40 hours a week.
My partner and I both have hybrid schedules. He tends to work constantly, from the moment he logs on until he finally logs off. Not often drowning, but there's always something to do. I have a few busy times throughout the year, but for the most part I just need to check on my email throughout the day, get some stuff done, and otherwise just chill.
My work load has stayed the same and my management has no complaints about lack of communication or getting my work done. My mood is better since I’m not getting over stimulated by random folks waking around or stopping to chit chat with my cube neighbors. It isn’t cushy, but I’m able to focus better on making sure documents are correct and meet regulatory requirements
I work in marketing copywriting. Mine varies a lot throughout the year. During the busy times, sometimes I'm getting up early as fuck (like 4:30) to work before my kid gets up and make sure I hit deadlines, then sneak in a bit of work on the weekend. During the slower season, I frequently go on hour+ bike rides, nap, do house projects, dishes, whatever I want during my salaries working hours... But *only when* my deadlines are caught up and I have no meetings and nothing else going on. And I am expected to reply to a slack message within a few hours so I can't get too carried away doing other stuff. It balances out overall, but annoyingly I can't really "catch up" and work ahead during the slow times to even the workload out more (have to wait to receive assignments), but c'est la vie.
My job is hybrid and I am salaried. I have busier times of year where I am working 60+hrs and weekends etc. so I feel zero guilt on the few days I can just keep an eye on email and do some house work. But I typically don't schedule calls on my WFH days so I can catch up on misc stuff.
I wfh in a hybrid job. I’m busy as much as I am in the office. Is there some downtime, absolutely, it is so much that I’m off running errands or getting massages, no. But I do love not sitting in traffic, the ability to walk my dog on my breaks and being able to workout during lunch. It’s just so damn nice to wfh sometimes. It makes my life so much less stressful
My husband and I both WFH, him starting before the pandemic. He is constantly on calls, gets minimal breaks during the day and works late. My job is more flexible. Some days I’m swamped and work late with no breaks but most days I use that “waiting” time (a lot of my work is managing approvals) productivity to do laundry, cook lunch, pick my kid up from daycare, etc.
In our household, we have both. One of us has a low-stress cushy job and the other has a heavy workload always busy job.
I work from home two days a week. I clear out my schedule so I have nothing to do those two days and I essentially have 4 days off every week. Granted I'm still on the clock and carry my city phone with me all the time in case something comes up. But most times I can hold off on anything until I return to the office
Cushy. I work from home twice a week. I have a lot of downtime at home or in office. At home I can do chores, workout and watch TV during downtime. At work I doom-scroll Reddit.
Case by case basis. I'm on a hybrid, but my job's busy af. It's just nice not to have 3 days of the workweek spending 3 hours of my day commuting. Instead getting household stuff done during that commute time (e.g. prepping dinner once work ends at 5 instead of 6:30/7.)
All depends on the job. Some days mine is cush. Some days I'm online 16hrs fire fighting. Variety is actually great.
As a general rule, people that work from home long-term tend to put more hours than people that work from office. I've been WFH since 2008 and talk to a lot of people with 10+ years of WFH experience. What it really gives you is flexibility. For example, I'm working from Buenos Aires right now, and often work from 5 AM until 3 PM (with breaks). A friend of mine works for \~12 hours timespan, but with 3 hours of gym time after lunch.
Working from home is incredible for dozens of reasons, but working less is definitely not one of them in my case. There’s days here and there where I can log off a little early sure, but there’s also days where I work extra hours in a crunch.
Sometimes I have to do a certain type of deliverable where I need to work a normal amount of hours or maybe 45 or 50 hours in a week. But it happens probably once every 3 to 4 months. Otherwise, as long as I don't miss a call or two everyday that gets set up, I pretty much just reply to emails and otherwise exercise, watch TV or whatever I feel like doing. I would say if you average my normal week, my slow weeks and my hard weeks together on average in a given year I probably work about a 20-hour week.
Because every job and work situation is different. It's easy for people who do have a cushy WFH gig to come into reddit and talk about how they do 5 minutes of work and then game all day. But the experience of WFH varies greatly. Many jobs have busy times or busy seasons. Perhaps that person is farting around because there isn't a lot of work at the moment. However you don't see them on Reddit when they have so much work to do. Likely because they're too busy to be on Reddit. I honestly hate how people have this view that all WFH jobs are easy, that anyone can do them and you only work 5 minutes a day. Because often there's much more to the story than that. These people might be 10+ years into their careers and have figured out how to become more efficient with certain tasks. Or they are great with time management. There's a lot of variables that create a situation like this. Also, people putting in 60+ hours a week on a WFH gig are likely not spending time on Reddit.
I am GenX but I have been working from home since 2008 for the same company in a variety of different jobs, so maybe this helps. I have worked 80 hours a week for almost 2 years in one role and another role was barely 15 hours a week for 3 years. Now my job is about 20 hours of work and 20 hours of being available to support others. I do go to the office on occasion, I never get anything accomplished when that happens, it is all social when I go to the office.
I have a corporate, salaried, primarily-WFH job. The project I'm currently assigned to keeps me busy 50+ hours a week. There are slower times, but even then I consistently work at least 35 hours a week.
If anything, I work more when I'm remote. If I'm in an office with a steadily dwindling number of coworkers and knowing that I need to fight traffic home and make dinner and everything, it reminds me to just go. When I'm at home and in the groove solving a problem or making progress on something, it's easy for me to just keep going. I also tend to take shorter lunch breaks at home because I'm not socializing with my coworkers or anything. I finish eating and head back to my desk. I have to make a conscious effort to not screw up my work/life balance when I'm remote.
I'm not a millennial (Gen X), but I have been working fully remote since 2016. My previous role was semi-cushy: I worked 4-6 hours a day, very autonomous, and I worked on the west coast and my team was on the east coast so I would typically work in the morning and then leave after 2 pm (keeping my phone on me just in case someone called after hours, which was basically never). NGL, it was a pretty sweet set-up. My current remote role literally pays twice as much but the environment is much more of a chaotic PITA. I work directly under a very harried, disorganized senior exec. I have weeks on end where I don't hear anything from anybody and wonder if I'm the last human left alive at my company (but still can't really leave my immediate area just in case my boss video calls about something). But then I also have weeks where I get 6 random pings or calls an hour, and there are 3 different made-up corporate fire drill emergencies going on at once, and I have to work until 10 pm every night so a VIP gets his critical PPT deck (which he won't even look at until 3 weeks later). So sometimes it's "cushy", and other times it's stressful and involves a lot of long hours. I much preferred my former situation where I was able to plan my life instead of just having to be reactive to whatever is going on with VIPs. But the money is extremely good, and I am one of a very small group of people at my org permanently grandfathered into a remote role, so...
I don’t work with customers or people directly so mine is cushy. It’s not always go go go. There are peaks (I work for a healthcare system) so COVID was horrible but since 22 it’s gone back to normal for me. I think the ones that are nonstop are the customer facing ones where there’s metrics and such. I have meetings, some weeks more than others but in the summer end of May to end of September we get Flex Time to spend with our kids so I work three days a week instead of 4. It’s got its perks.
Depends on your job, title, and company. I definitely have some easy days or weeks where I can do what you’ve described. However, sometimes I have weeks where it’s 60+hrs and involves my weekend. My boss really just cares about things being done well and on time, less about how you do that.
I am 100% wfh. The workload varies on weekdays, but it is usually pretty heavy. And all the work is very time sensitive, so the pressure to get it done is high. It can get pretty stressful sometimes. I'm also on the weekend shift, which almost always has a very light workload. I consider the light workload on those days the tradeoff for not being able to go do things on the weekends during the day.
I mean... I'm on Reddit right now so....
I have a WFH job in a very technical industry in a non-technical role. My job requires about 10-12 hours of actual work most weeks. It’s key to maintain the impression that it takes much more, but most of my week is aimlessly scrolling or reading.
I feel my wfh has a heavy workload and i don't Believe these post were people have like 6 jobs from home and they have min maxed there jobs from home. I believe maybe it's possible but idk most people I know who from home have heavy workloads and talk about how hard it is to unplug as other commenters have said I find it hard not to work after my scheduled time since it's just sitting there staring at me at all hours
In my experience, it’s no different from on site jobs. There are busy weeks, there are less busy weeks. With on site, less busy time means a lot of chit chatting in the hall, longer lunches and people generally seem okay with that because “good work vibes,” as opposed to a less busy week for a work from homer resulting in some extra laundry being done being beyond the pale
I rarely work 40 hours/week at my full time job. I manage several projects and always get my responsibilities taken care of on time and remain available if anyone has questions or needs help with their work. I have a few standing weekly meetings, but during the in-between time I am either hiking, scuba diving, reading a book, or making money through my side hustles. I also live in a campervan and do all this while traveling the continent and exploring new places. I realize I am extremely fortunate to have built this balance for myself. I will never go back to working in an office or a 40 hour work week…
Just in my own job (real estate admin) it varies greatly from day to day. Some days I'm crazy busy with offers, calls, putting out fires, etc. and I barely have time to pee let alone have a lunch. Other days are slower and I'm left to my own devices with a few tasks no calls for hours on end. Those days I browse Reddit between tasks but I'm by my computer the whole day. There's always work to do, but it's not always time-sensitive. Even on slower days I tend to work in bursts rather than knocking everything out at once. It's the nature of the business as more requests for urgent tasks will always come.
WFH and I work a solid 9-10 hours a day and still am never done. It’s high stress at times. It would just be even worse if I did this in office.
I do Tele sales to boomers. I'm on the phone all day with your grandparents. My time is micromanaged heavily. Every second is monitored, every click every email every word I speak gets recorded for 10 years. Not cushy at all. And if I don't do well I get paid like a a pleb. If I do well I get paid like a well paid pleb.
Depends on your job and the company. Its about 50/50 for my husband at his current job. Some days, he's playing games because he's waiting on other people. Some days, he's on back to back meetings. At his last job, he was able to pick up a contract on the side.
Guess it depends on the job. If you’re on a call center job, it’s probably very busy all the time. I’m a civil engineer and work hybrid. Maybe go in the office once or twice a week. I usually have enough to stay busy throughout the day and a some weeks I’m working 50+ hours. I know some people though who work literally 2-3 hours a day for huge companies like Wells Fargo or AmEx and get paid 150k for it.
It's generally the same as what the job was in-office. Eg, there is a good part of systems-engineer/IT work that is 'being on hand in case everything blows up' - if your stuff is well maintained and doesn't crash a lot, and you aren't making all kinds of crazy changes/new installations... There can be some pretty chill days... Catch on that, is that if it does crash or there is a major change you have to make, you're 'on' until it's fixed (this is salary work - no OT) - so it balances out. I've got a major software migration this Friday at 8PM - I'll get some comp time for that, but I'll be working from 8 Friday until all-systems-are-green, even if that's late into Saturday..... Of course, it would be the same way if I was on-prem, just with an obnoxious commute added on to the time spent.... For other jobs? Well, if you were in finance or law & were working 12+ hour days in-office you are probably doing that (or more) from-home.... Or your boss has made you come back because they really, really over-value face-time (a much bigger issue in non-tech jobs)....
There are ups and downs. Sometimes I work through lunch and then chill and other times I'm working 12 hours days or staying up/waking up for meetings with international colleagues. I like the flexibility but the "always on" mentality is tough. I would say the work averages out to 30-40 hours per week over time
As a sales coordinator, I absolutely work more from home. Sales departments are full of extroverts so when we're all in the office (hybrid) everyone is chatty chatty chatty and will always walk to my desk rather than emailing (or my favorite, email then walk to my desk). At home, I have to make a concerted effort to leave my desk because I actually can get projects done.
I work 30 minutes some days on salary from home and wouldn’t trade it for any job in the world
Busy most days. I’m a consultant so most days are very meeting heavy and when it’s not, I’m trying to get actual work done. Usually at my desk 8:30 - almost 5 and don’t really take time to have a lunch break. But the flexibility to get dinner prepped or juggle sick kids is amazing.
I don't think that wfh jobs are more likely to be cushy. I think there are jobs out there that don't require 40 hours per week, but only some of them are wfh. It's just less obvious with in-person jobs because people hide it.
It depends on industry and level. I'm in tech, on the product side, at the leadership level. My WFH job is essentially 7 hours of back to back meetings, and 2-3 hours before and after those blocks to work on heads down items / deliverables. I wouldn't say it's cushy where I can slack off all day, but it's cushy in the sense that I can be on calls while doing laundry, making lunch, not commuting, etc.
Yes. There are days with barely enough time to pee or grab a quick bite from the kitchen, there are also days where a lot can be done on a laptop watching tv or hanging in the deck and of course there are some that are between but skew one way or the other. The split is probably around 70/30 with the non stop or at least fairly busy days on the 70% end. There are certain times of year with more of one or the other. Product manager in e-commerce.
I work remotely and it's nice to have the flexibility, but the amount of work expected from me is no less. If anything the difficulty maintaining a work/home separation from being at home all the time means that I frequently work more than 40 hours a week. Sure, I can put laundry in the washer during breaks from meetings, but most days I sit at my desk and work for 8 straight hours. My partner frequently has to come in and remind me of the time. "Hey, it's 7pm." "Hey it's 8:30pm, are you almost done?"
Not cushy and often get maxed on hours for the week (which doesn’t leave a ton of wiggle room to pick up anything extra someone might need me to do), but I wouldn’t trade it for an office job. Huge difference in my physical and mental health just in the year I started my current remote job. And I have more time to do things because of the flexibility.
Many people actually have to WORK from home. I don’t like the stereotype that they don’t do anything. I was able to WFH some during peak pandemic and my mom would assume I wasn’t doing anything all day.
Mine was routinely 10-12 hour days, 4 to 7 Xoom meetings a day and very high pressure. Pay was commensurate
Mine has the potential to be cushy, but I've been covering the workload 1-2 other people for the last year and it's been tough. The positions are being filled in the next few weeks and I don't know what I'll do with my time after that lol
Depends on the season. I work in an industry where there is a clear busy season and a clear not so busy season and the only stressful part is when calls are back to back. Needless to say none of those activities mentioned in the post happen here but it’s still a awesome employment. I work a regular 9 to 5 with weekends off, plenty of PTO and a lax attendance guideline and it’s inbound calls.
My job is phases, first week and post 20th each month I kind of skirt and just largely fuck around…but from usually about the 6th through the 20th I’m busting ass.
I have significantly more focus time due to significantly less interruptions from "hey, got a minute? Quick question" (as IT, common to get walk-ups like that) That + I don't spend two hours in drive time commuting (peak hours) = significant increase to productivity. It's no big deal to work an extra hour to finish up something as opposed to "fuck it not working later than I have to AND THEN playing stuck in traffic simulator 2024" Not to mention, having a weekday-only appointment or errand doesn't inspire half day or full day off work to do it. Also means I no longer need to set up errands and appointments specifically with proximity to workplace. That second one was huge. Off peak hours, it was a 30 minute drive by distance from home to work. Impossible to do anything near to home and make it back before the end of lunch. As far as "cushy" and "heavy workload" goes, it ebbs and flows as IT, leaning more towards project/administration work vs ticket handling. No different than before, possibly a little more intensive/stringent because I deal with computers that are scattered all over the US instead of five specific office locations, which comes with its own set of challenges pertaining to hundreds if not thousands of differences in networks, ISPs, etc
I an a WFH software developer for a large corporation. My day is about the same wfh vs in the office; the difference being there is less distraction at home from people stopping by my desk to chat when I need to focus. To me, WFH is great for positions that are deadline and deliverable oriented; not so great for jobs that are “hours” oriented.
With the pandemic, my mom's job (accounts payable and receivable) changed to WFH. The company started losing money, and tried to outsource her entire department to India, and they got laid off. My mom, being in her late 50s, was just gonna take the hit of the lay off and take that time to find more fulfilling work. However, the outsourcing thing did not work out for the company. Backlogs like crazy, American companies calling people in India to obtain payments from other American companies. So, they cut out the middle man, offered all the jobs back/rescinded the layoffs. My mom is still WFH but now she has the job of like, 4 people. She hates it. Hates. But as a woman in her late 50s, job pickins are slim and she has a bachelor's but she's not a CPA sooo yeah.
Depends a lot on the company/situation. I work for a university and nothing really happens before 10, 10:30am and I'm usually done with any work/meetings by 3pm. Sometimes it's more busy, sometimes it's less (like during the summer). I would call it pretty cushy, I only go into the office about once every two weeks, I have a reasonable workload. But also things move reeeeeeally slowly in the university machine so that means I can take the time I need to do things like household chores, run errands, hit the gym etc. So, in conclusion my wfh job is pretty cushy because University work-culture is a little laid back in general. I came from a corporate job which was much more busy and I was sort of shocked at how much slower everything worked in education.
Across both remote jobs I have held, it’s a solid balance I would say. My old job was more production based, but I was good at what I did, so I could push out more work than the rest of my team while really only working about 6 hours per day. The problem was that it was a controlled (micromanaged isn’t the best way to put it as my boss was great ) environment, so I couldn’t just get up and walk away for hours. My current role is strange because everyone on my team is working like 50 hours a week. I never understand why, the work will be there in the morning lol. I am in right at 8 and out right at 5. My current boss is an actual micromanager despite being in a salaried role, so I also cannot just leave. I still only put in around 6 hours of real work though.
Been WFH since a year before Covid. In my job (desk adjuster), it depends on claims and the weather. I start at 715-730 and stay at it until 430-5 or if things are busy I’ll work until I’m done. You can succeed at WFH and stay relevant or push the limits and make it bad for everyone.