I generally have worked 200-225 days per year. Most clients for the last 20 yrs have insisted I work onsite. And, most have been a 30-ish minute commute each way. That none of those clients has ever been willing to pay for.

I& #39;ve always treated it as the cost of doing business and factored it into my rates, etc. The thing is, though, that& #39;s a literal month+ of full-time work each year, on behalf of those clients, that I have had to donate under that "cost of doing business" metric.

For employees, that means 4 weeks of vacation is "break even" on commuting. Anything less is tilted in the employer& #39;s favor.

This year, I get that month back. I& #39;m not super-keen on giving it up again later.

If this was a deal I was negotiating that didn& #39;t have a hundred+ years of tradition wrapped up in it, I& #39;d never go for it.

If it was an entirely new deal, I& #39;d probably propose that I& #39;d work 8 hr days from home or 7 hr work days from their office.

Past conversations with clients indicate that they would suddenly not find it valuable enough to have me on site. At least that& #39;s what happened when I offered a 10% discount for offsite working days.