After remote employee is forced to start workdays from the office, they decide to commute on bike, resulting in only two hours of active work a day: ‘I was paid to cycle around’ – FAIL Blog

When you decide to start incorporating daily exercise, one of the biggest challenges you face is finding the time for it.

Between the commute to work, a full-time job, quality time with your family, and hangouts with friends, who can find the time to actually work out every day? It’s hard to bring yourself to wake up an hour early to squeeze in a workout first thing in the morning, and it’s even harder to do it after a whole day at work. So, before you know it, your New Year’s resolutions are a distant dream, and the gym is long-forgotten. Better luck next year, right?

Well, there is one solution that can be helpful to some people, if they are brave enough to make it work. All you have to do is turn your commute to and from work into your daily workout. Think about it, instead of taking the bus or driving your car, you can walk to work, or even better, cycle on a bike. As long as your job is not hundreds of miles away from where you live, if you put enough effort into it, you can turn the time you waste stuck in traffic into an actual exercise. That way, you don’t have to find time for a workout in your already full schedule, and your commute becomes a lot more beneficial.

In the case of the employee in the story below, not only did they exercise by riding their bikes to work every day, but they actually got paid to do it as well.

Initially, this employee was hired as a remote worker because most of their job demanded they move around town. However, a change in management led to a new policy that requires every employee to work from the base office, no exceptions. This led the employee to start cycling to the office in the morning, get an hour of work done there, then bike to the next location they are needed at, return to the base office for lunch, and then get another hour of work done before having to head out yet again.

Overall, all this commuting caused this employee to get only two hours of work out of a full workday, and they kept this up for the entire summer. At some point, management realized that the job was taking a lot more time than before and confronted the employee about it. Luckily, the employee was more than ready to stand up for themselves.