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I negotiated with my company to count my commuting time as work time, since my bus is not crowded and I can always get on my laptop and work with a hotspot. So in a sense you could say I make money while commuting because it counts towards my working hours. I also get part of my afternoon back :)

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Off topic, but how did you do that? Did you ask after having proven you got work done? Or did you bring it up at the initial interview?

I'm not commuting anymore, but when I used to, I would try to get some work done on the train, and if I did, go home earlier without feeling bad about it. We didn't track time at that job.

At my current company I can clock in via VPN and book time on whatever I'd work on, wherever I am. As long as I tell my superior that I won't be at the office, and as long as I don't have any meetings during that time, he's fine with it. I've committed to deadlines already, and if I don't meet them, he's in trouble, but so am I, so he trusts me.

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