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I think that doing household chores and errands for supplies SHOULD count a work time if you are working from home. If you are WFH, then you are not only doing

I think that doing household chores and errands for supplies SHOULD count a work time if you are working from home. If you are WFH, then you are not only doing your main job, but you are also working in the facilities department. If you go to the office, there are people who clean the office, take out the garbage, maintain equipment, clean the bathroom, etc. At home you have to do all of that.

munk-a 6y ago
You make a decent argument but... society doesn't judge that commute times or medical appointments should necessarily be reimbursed, so I think that there isn't really a "sane baseline" to compare against in non-covid times. There's also the very real question of division of usage - most of us are likely working in spaces that intersect heavily with our private spaces (since we didn't move to our current residences with having a dedicated home office in mind) and that creates a pretty complex process to actually assign responsibility - it shouldn't be 100% in either direction, but it's hard to figure out how much of that time was legitimately caused by you working from home.