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Folks with families who travel for work tend to ask to travel during the weekdays. Also, if we're talking about one or two weekends a year, the balance tips in
by otoburb 10y ago
Folks with families who travel for work tend to ask to travel during the weekdays. Also, if we're talking about one or two weekends a year, the balance tips in favour of scheduling the "strategic retreat" during the work week.
- morgante 10y agoWhat is so special and sacred about weekends?
- eropple 10y agoIf I'm an employee: that they're mine. My employer has no claim on all of my time. If I'm a consultant: not much, which is why I often work them instead of weekdays. Not both, but instead of.
- morgante 10y agoThis is such an aggressive attitude. Yes, in general, my weekends are mine. I would not work for a company which consistently asked me to work every weekend. But I'm happy to share one or two weekends a year with my employer. Moreover, I also consider my evenings "mine." That doesn't mean I'm going to throw a hissy fit when the company has its holiday party.
- thedufer 10y agoThere's a big difference between working a weekend and partying for an evening. The latter is typically optional (and if its not, that's a problem).
- eropple 10y agoThere is no "sharing" with an employer. The employer exists to get as much out of the employee as possible for as low a rate as possible. And drawing bright, do-not-cross lines is the only way to get on with them.