Travelling for work - not daily commute

AubreyMac

IAmWales wrote: »

So 2.5 hours each way?

You're choosing to travel on the Sunday, you don't have to. You shouldn't expect any additional payment for your choice.

Yep, it takes me over 1 hour to go from my home to Paddington station. Then from Paddington to Oxford is just over an hour too so 2.5hrs each way door to door sounds about right.


Regardless which day I travel, my query was whether the travel comes out of my own time.


I'll ask a colleague how it works for them (as they travel more often) and if I'm expected to travel on a regular basis (I don't think it will be as this was never mentioned in job advert or description) then I may have to have a discussion about it with my manager.

theoretica

Do you have work to do on the train to add to the justification it is work time?

Red-Squirrel_2

w06 wrote: »

By the way you should probably edit out the information that you've given of why you're going to Oxford

Definitely, you could be in breach of confidentiality rules here, you've put potentially identifying information online for anyone to see.

greenbee

You need to check your policies, not just what other people do as this may not be consistent. The EU certainly counts travel as work (I travel a lot and we have different rules for EU and US employees) and in many organisations travel over and above your daily commute is what counts as time worked (TOIL or overtime). My old boss was pretty flexible and just expected me to 'make it right'. My current one is less so, so TOIL is booked in the HR system and as much travel as possible done during normal working hours. I work from home, so any travel is a. expensed and b. time worked.

Alfrescodave

Very surprised that work is willing to pay for the 2nd night in the hotel . Even if you finish at 6pm, there's plenty of trains in the evening that would get you home at approx 9pm (your timings).

IAmWales

Alfrescodave wrote: »

Very surprised that work is willing to pay for the 2nd night in the hotel . Even if you finish at 6pm, there's plenty of trains in the evening that would get you home at approx 9pm (your timings).

I'd assumed it was for another trip or that they were there the next day also. If it's not, they need to be clarifying the policy with the manager, I'd be very surprised if a CS policy (or any company policy for that matter) allowed it.

throwa

Considering that the journey is only in Oxford (1hr away from London) I'm surprised that they're offering you any hotel nights, let alone 2! In my old (private sector) consultancy days I would have been expected to do that in one day without any hotel stay overs.

I still do some travelling, in your case I would go up the Sunday night after the kids are in bed, have a nice relaxed evening and Monday morning enjoying the hotel, and then come back the Monday evening after all meetings are finished.

Have a chat to your colleagues though as if they do travel more frequently than you do they will be able to say what's 'normal' for you, and whether any TOIL (formal or informal) operates, before speaking to your manager.