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I actually work half days during the week often, and then work part of the day on Saturday and/or Sunday. This allows me to work with my head down on a weekend
by ok_dad 4y ago
I actually work half days during the week often, and then work part of the day on Saturday and/or Sunday. This allows me to work with my head down on a weekend day without co-workers messaging me, and the same for working early in the mornings on weekends when my family is still asleep. This actually allows me, personally, more flexibility on weekdays to go out with my family when there aren't as many people out and about, and go with my wife to our son's medical appointments and other important things like that.
I wouldn't advocate everyone can or should do this, but I think that the "don't work outside working hours"/"must work during working hours" status quo can hurt flexibility a lot. Personally, weekends to me are just another day of the week, and I want to try normalize that wherever I go.
- DoingIsLearning 4y ago> This allows me to work with my head down on a weekend day without co-workers messaging me I appreciate that this works for you but to me this comes across more as an issue with work boundaries more than the benefits of weekend work. Advocate for 'no-meeting days' multiple times in the week. Advocate for blocks of half-days in the work week where the whole team goes radio silence. We implemented this in both the team I am working in now and in my previous gig. Managers will absolutely defend the team's time like this if you pitch it constructively and the team delivers results to back it up.
- wombat-man 4y agoIf you can go offline for half a day then I would think that you could block out "focus time" on your schedule. Some of my coworkers do this, and I do too from time to time.
- ok_dad 4y agoI really don’t care about weekend days, though, and I don’t work any more than usual. I prefer it this way. Like I said, it’s but for everyone but it’s not like I’m some company tool working all the time haha.