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Rights yes, but they may find another resource. And you may consider another job.
Secondarily, 18 hours of travel time a week would in my mind constitute a discussion about onsite/offsite weeks if you are honestly the best/closest resource for the work.
If it’s only for one week, bite the bullet, fly in Sunday, fly home Thursday
Going forward, I can’t imagine where you live and where the client is where it’s 8 hours door to door but only one time zone apart, so if they expect it to happen weekly, you’ll need to find what works best for everyone
I mean that sucks, but kind of part of the game.
Usually if I fly in early for Sunday, I leave early on Thursday some times even on Wednesday
Wayy too many people doing what feels like shaming OP.
Don’t feel guilty for a little WLB, these over-workers posting above are not healthy for the rest of us in the workforce.
Evaluate how long you’ll be needing to have this travel arrangement and if it’s simply unsustainable then do what’s best for your health and time.
Time is the number 1 commodity you have. You decide if it’s worth giving your life for the amount of dollars you get in exchange. You can always get more dollars, but you can’t ever receive more time.
Just send them an email titled "Exodus 20:8-11" while mentioning the above.
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You were allowed to work remote so far, and you’re not ready to be flexible for your one-off visit? What message are you sending to your client?
Instead of overthinking this, go there and gauge the situation. If the travel remains one-off, shut up and take the Sunday flight. If travel is going to become regular, create a mutual understanding. You can do shorter weeks, alternate weeks and many other combinations.
I can’t reach the client location at a reasonable time Monday mornings and getting home Thursday at a normal time (pre-10pm at the latest) requires leaving at a pretty early time Thursday. I’ve been remote for the past few weeks and work has gone very well in my opinion (it seems I won’t be having much client-facing interactions anyways, so doing work with my team via just conference calls has been fine) but they’re now asking me to look into travel options for next week, likely to continue into following weeks. When I bring up the times that I’d need to arrive Monday and leave Thursday, I’m afraid they’ll direct me to fly out Sundays and home Friday mornings. Is taking a super early flight Monday 4am or 5am also an unreasonable ask since I’ll have to work a full day once I’m there anyways? Client is 1 hour behind my home location.
So M-TH travel is a perk not a right, best way to handle this is to negotiate one side or the other, meaning either flyin Sun and leave early Thursday or come in late Monday and leave out early Thursday.
You could push it but honestly it’s typically not worth causing yourself the internal headache as ridiculous travel comes with the job
Why not just stay over on weekends?
Is Sunday-Wed travel a compromise?
I’m in a city where in order to get to most locations, I have to connect. Most directs are hub locations for any airline. I take the bullet the first 2-3 weeks but then negotiate with the PM that either you get this or you get burnout. Most of the time they take the travel schedule. The one time they didn’t, I was able to negotiate extra days of pto (industry not consulting).
I had one PM say it was mandatory that I arrive in the office for the 9am meeting. This is physically impossible and would require time travel adjustment to Sunday. Most empathic managers work around these issues and once she finally understood the dilemma wasn’t that I didn’t want to, it was that I couldn’t, she became more lenient. Most understand, I suggest asking. There will be times where your availability is necessary but it’s not 100%.
I have to leave at 12pm on Sunday and get back at 12am on Friday. That leaves exactly 36 hrs with my family a week.
And I love my job.