I don't travel for work often but when I do it's Pacific time zone to Eastern time zone. Given this route is essentially a lost day, I generally opt to fly out on a Sunday so I can hit the ground running for a full Monday. Flight home would be early AM so I could still log a few hours of work from home.

I have no kids and generally no responsibilities, so I don't mind giving up my Sunday to travel given how infrequent it is, but wondering how others handle business travel days?