Originally Posted by mbreuer
As far as I'm concerned, unless you're offering first class (and perhaps even then), time spent in coach for a business trip on a red-eye should count as work time. Let them have the day - or work from home. I, for one, would find it cruel to arrive at 7 with virtually no sleep and be expected to be at work at 1 PM... how late do you then expect them to stay? Do you want to risk a lawsuit if one of them falls asleep driving & kills someone?
Very well put. As a matter of fact I was in my backyard thinking about this for a while and I came to the same exact conclusion. It would be in our best interests to leave this off of the books and allow the salespeople to use thier better judgment. God forbid something like this actually happened it would be terrible.
Thank you for validating my thoughts on this. I will report this to my CEO tomorrow morning.