Working on the Train?

Casey_81

Hi,

I currently do the big commute from the midlands to Dublin, with the dark evenings and mornings, I was wondering whats the feasibility of factoring in some of the commuting hours doing work?

Just wondering if any of you currently have this kind of arrangement with your employers.. and is it mutually beneficial?

Thanks

T Corolla

Casey_81 wrote: »

Hi,

I currently do the big commute from the midlands to Dublin, with the dark evenings and mornings, I was wondering whats the feasibility of factoring in some of the commuting hours doing work?

Just wondering if any of you currently have this kind of arrangement with your employers.. and is it mutually beneficial?

Thanks

Hi Casey_81 I read your previous posts you travel from Longford to Connolly on the 5:45am train. Does your workplace have a scheme called work life effectiveness.

Stark

We have a sleep on the train scheme where I work.

Casey_81

T Corolla wrote: »

Hi Casey_81 I read your previous posts you travel from Longford to Connolly on the 5:45am train. Does your workplace have a scheme called work life effectiveness.

We have flexi-time at work, so if I work late one day I can leave earlier the next and so on... I choose to take the early train to work because that means I can leave earlier.

Recently though I have been thinking about ways to get more time for life in the whole 'work-life balance' and want some opinions on working on the train as an option.

T Corolla

Casey_81 wrote: »

We have flexi-time at work, so if I work late one day I can leave earlier the next and so on... I choose to take the early train to work because that means I can leave earlier.

Recently though I have been thinking about ways to get more time for life in the whole 'work-life balance' and want some opinions on working on the train as an option.

What is the nature of your job. can you process task via laptop.

Victor

I suppose it depends on the type of work you are doing.

I imagine it might be easy to catch up on e-mails or reading on the train, but phone calls (especially at 0545!) or looking at A1 drawings might be a bit more impractical.

While the work on the train avoids some of the pitfalls of office work (interruptions, meetings, the boss, etc.) it might have its own interruptions or lack of privacy.

Depending on the work there are of course confidentiality issues.

loyatemu

if they let you do some of your work "on the train" then you should be able to do it even better at home - lobby for one day a week working from home and that'll be 4 hours commuting cut out straight away.

just be aware of some of the "pitfalls":


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