Remote + Flexible work >> Salary

I was thinking about remote + flexible hours, and I don’t think I would ever work for a company without these. At least by choice 🙃

I mean, who would tell Morty and Sum Sum that I wouldn’t be at home to play?

Summer (pomeranian) on the left and Morty (german spitz) on the right.

I’m a strong believer that work should wrap around your lifestyle and not vice-versa.

On average, a person works 40 hours a week and sleeps 8 hours a day. This means that out of 168h per week you have 72h for personal time. In terms of percentage we have: 24% for work, 33% for sleep, and 43% for personal time.

So how come most people have almost 2x as much personal time compared to work time and they still feel like they are in this 9–5 rat race and their life revolves around work?

Well, here’s the 4 scenarios as I see it…

1. The work is not remote (and not flexible).

• If we account for the commute and stress associated with, personal time gets directly transferred into work time.
• E.g. with a daily 2 hour commute Mon-Fri, which is very typical, this means that your personal time is divided into 30% for work and 37% for personal. This isn’t event including the part where you have to prepare to leave the house, and the tiredness resultant from the commute.