Working hours, remote work, and vacation

As our work is predominantly theoretical/computational, we have a lot of flexibility around when and where we work. Please set your hours based on how you work best. I'm generally in lab ~930-~6.

If it fits you, I would encourage you to plan one day a week where you work from home (or elsewhere out of office). This shift in perspective can be helpful for your work and I encourage you to take advantage of this time to think freely and critically about your project and current approaches. I do ask that you plan to attend lab meetings in person -- in my experience, remote attendance encourages people to listen (at best), rather than participate, in lab meetings. Also, I ask that you plan to be physically in lab 3-4 days a week. Of course, this can vary week to week and exceptions will be made to fit people’s circumstances.

I expect you will be taking vacations. I usually take off from the weekend before Christmas until the weekend after new years, a few days around thanksgiving, a week or two over the summer, and the various official 3-day weekends. I’ll lightly respond to emails during these times, do some reading, maybe some writing. But in general I like to use this time to recharge, spend some time with family and hobbies, and I encourage you all to do the same. For more about work-life balance in academia, please see [Work-life balance].