As I am sitting in an airport waiting for my flight back home from a team event this week, I am wondering if most people travel for work on personal time (Fly out Sunday and return Saturday) or on company time (Fly out Monday and return Friday). If you fly on company time, under which category do you log it in the system? Travel takes almost a full day door to door (getting to airport 2 hours before a flight, airport delays, flight duration, commute to/from airport). I feel I am wasting personal time like today waiting in an airport. I am a remote employee and I need to travel once a quarter for a week every time. I am no longer at Amazon. I am curious what you do? I would love to read your comments and hear from managers or ICs who have done this before. I am new to travel to meet the team and I don't want to get in trouble with my manager/company if I choose to fly on company time.
OP at Meta? So many Meta folks traveling this week for 2024 planning
Not in faang anymore
In your specific example probably depends if you are going east or west coast. Ideally would be Flying v early on Monday and back Friday afternoon. I have no problem getting up at 4am on a Monday for a work flight, but if it cuts into your already short weekend then it’s a problem in my opinion
I go beyond this. Personal travel on company time.
If so, traveling on company time if you can. Travel on personal time if you are behind on your projects and need more time to catch up. Everything depends on your PSC.
Haven't had an employer since Boeing that time tracked salaried employees (and Boeing mainly does it because they are a defense contractor and the law requires them to bill the government specifically for all employee hours connected to each specific contract).... For Boeing there wasn't any out of region travel associated with my job, but they had a category for 'business travel' in their system.
I always travel during the working week (when I do). Sometimes it may be a bit early or late in the day but I’d never travel for work on a Saturday. That said I’ll often fly in for a work trip (like on a Friday) and then spend the weekend exploring a new city. I’ll pay for my extra hotel nights. As far as logging time I’m a bit confused. Are you not an exempt employee? Do you actually log hours? If you do then you would defer to whoever does your timesheet on the code to use.
Company time, of course. Would you work on a weekend? Same thing.
If the company wants you there, travel on their time. Log it as business travel. It’s no different than how the travel expenses are logged for reimbursement.
Personal time, usually - I want to be able to spend more time at the destination, as it makes the trip worth it. My trip is only worth for the company if I make it worth it, and there’s plenty of stuff I can do when traveling anyway (like staring through the airplane window for hours!) (Tc: $3M+)
Only did 2 business trip so not a big traveller but the only time I didn't travel on company time was because I wanted to stay for the weekend in the city.