Morning - does any of your organisations apply a distance or time limit for over night stays away form the workplace. Examples - 100 miles or 2 hour drive?

We don't; we always expect people to use discretion but don't set a limit in case people really are very very tired or it is unreasonably late to expect them to drive home. On the whole people would rather get home, and we don't really get people booking stays away if they can possibly get home, John

Yes, I think any policy must have pragmatic and sensible approach.

I work for myself and frequently stay overnight. I base my trips on roughly more than 150 miles driving with about 2+ hours on site. A trip to London for me is more than 200 miles and about 5 hours with one or two rest breaks - depending on traffic. Following a site visit I usually get to the hotel about 5 or 6 pm and write the report. Scotland similar. There is an odd occasion when I can visit 2 sites in a day but that then reduces the miles. I recently travelled 120 miles to site, 2 hours on site then a further 30 miles and 2 hours on site. I was knackered !!!!

Really depends on how long i need to stay in a depot. Based in Liverpool but have depots as far up as Aberdeen and as far down as Somerset and West Sussex. Did Bridgend last week, 5 hours there due to the delightful M6 and problems after the M50, 3 hours in the depot and over 4 hours back. I wasn't driving but normally i'd have done another depot the day before or after and stayed over. Done Motherwell a few times as a day trip, approx 3.5 hrs from here.