I attempt to get out of downtown a bit on the bike once or twice a week, and then there's always the lunchtime errands. If I have the time, I sneak down to Jordan Lake, a 20mi round trip. But 10mi or so at lunch is more common.

I am maintenance in an auto glass factory and we have three wheel bikes with baskets for out tools. I ride it a couple of miles a night I would guess. I could use an electric cart but why.

Where I work (University of Minnesota) our campus straddles both sides of the Mississippi River, so distance between meetings can easily exceed a mile. Campus parking is at a premium and pushed out to the edges of campus, so traveling by car is impractical. Luckily, the campus has several Nice Ride (bike sharing) stations and the University has negotiated significantly discounted memberships, so it ends up being a fantastic way to get around campus. Campus is crisscrossed with dedicated bike paths/lanes/bridges, so hopping on your own bike or a Nice Ride is often the quickest way between two points on campus, as well as into nearby neighborhoods or up and down the river trails for lunch. I really appreciate that as a benefit of working here.

I've had a few conference calls that I knew would be complete wastes of time and were in the afternoon, so I just took them with mute on while riding home.

Very few people ride bikes on the college campus where I work in the Bronx (Manhattan College, misleadingly named). It is built on an extremely steep hill made of granite. One of the streets isn't a street for a portion, it's an eight-story-tall set of stairs. In most cases other than the quadrangle, each building is a lot higher or lower than the adjacent building. I'm one of the few who cross the campus on bike. I see a handful of male students getting around on skateboards. I love watching them. It's poetry in motion. Just going around campus on foot can give a person plenty of exercise.

when it's nice (above 40 and not raining) I try to ride to and from work every day. I also take rides at lunch and usually do my workouts (intervals, hill repeats, etc.) at this time. this morning I took the "long" way and got 20 miles before breakfast :-) I have my own office so nobody cares if I'm steeping in my smelly bike clothes all day lol!

We have two main job sites 4 km apart, and I work at the one farther from home. Occasionally I have to go to both sites in the same day. However, ironically, I usually I manage not to get in any extra biking in as I try to go "on the way" ie. go to the other site late in the day, then go home, or go first thing in the morning and then on to my usual site. Since the other site is not far off my usual route, I am not actually adding any noticeable distance to my daily commute, just doing part of it during working hours.

Man, so jealous right now. You have everything, LOL. You can commute to work. I probably could do that, but I think I said in another thread, if I'm getting up earlier to go to work, I'll just take the 10 minutes in a car earlier and get a bigger paycheck.

You get a lunch break. I'd love to get a lunch break and be able to go out for a ride. They talked about putting my coworker and I on salary, but that would force me to shut equipment down and go take a lunch break. I don't want to have to shut my equipment down for lunch. An hour lunch would mean about 2-3 hours of lost production.

20 miles before breakfast! I assume you aren't waking up at 2 am to go do 20 miles before breakfast then?

And finally, your own office. This is probably the greatest thing you have. I share office space with 3 others in 4 corner cubicles with entrances facing the center of the room. If I'm working on the computer, 2 of the guys never shut up and they're turned around facing me blabbing away. It was so nice back when I had my own single office that had a door I could shut. It was also in a office mobile home out side of the main manufacturing floor and away from management. I had peace and quiet out there, it was lovely.

Hardly. I have a 1 year old at home, so commuting early allows me to get miles and time alone without inconveniencing anyone else, which is a major issue in my house. My bike habit is something about which I have to tread very lightly lol.

I can commute to work, and the shortest route is about 7 miles if I ride straight there. Honestly, the bike takes the same amount of time as the car, and if there is traffic, it's actually faster. If you worked on your fitness and traffic riding/route finding skills, you might find the same to be true for you. I usually only leave about 15 minutes earlier, which gives me time to get 12 miles or so and take a less congested and more mellow route. So I end up at work at the same time.

I don't get a lunch break per se. I'm salaried as a corporate recruiter, so I manage my own desk. I also work on commission so I can't just eff off all the time, or I'd never make any actual money. This usually means that I eat at my desk and take 45 mins or so around 2pm to go do laps around the park.

In order to do 20 miles this morning, I left at 7 am, and arrived at work at around 8:10, my usual in time is 8:30. So I was early AND I was able to ride some gorgeous miles before the traffic picked up. I prepped last night and woke up at 6:30 to be turning the cranks by 7. I usually wake up at 7:15, so it wasn't a big deal. Honestly it was GREAT and I will try to do it a few times a week all summer.

My own office IS nice, but I'm probably more like one of those guys who never shuts up, and I prefer company lol. The nice part is that when I get bored, I can just turn around and work on my bike and nobody knows :-)

I often used bicycle as a means of transport during work since I have some "field" work often. Saves fuel, gives more available company cars, doesn't use more time in traffic jams and keeps me happy.

Now that the weather is warmer I do an extended commute of around 12 miles each way to with about 600 feet of climb in each direction. Thankfully we have a full gym here so I accomplish my weight training during lunch (I eat on a break or while working) and sometimes later in the afternoon I have time for a 15-20 mile ride before an early evening meeting. I just wash up after each ride. On a good day I get 40-45 miles in which is great but at least a normal day now gives me 24-25 miles of riding which puts me in a great place in terms of cardio and feeling grounded.

My office's consulting clients (universities) are pretty bike-positive, and for the ones located in the inner Boston area, it is faster to reach meetings by cycle than it is to drive or take the subway. It's kind of a win-win: faster travel, a little relief and exercise during the day, and always some interesting chatter about conditions and gear with the clients. They love it when I arrive in full rain gear and strip down to a business suit (that is during colder weather).

The same goes with doctor's, lunch and other appointments in town.

On a decent day, I get in my 20 commuting miles, plus another 8 or 9 miles in -between.

No, but I have actually (unsuccessfully) tried to find a job that would allow me to get paid and ride at the same time. I recently read about a mattress store that delivers mattresses on a cargo bike, so if that's possible I think there is hope for me yet.

Great responses from all of you.

I biked all but 6 days this school year. I'm a part-timer (4 hrs a day/ 5 days a week) but only when the kids are in class. I got approx. 600 miles in on the college's bike. I even surprised the college president by riding alongside of her on a 24 degree day. Heavy rain and ice were 5 of the days off the bike. I wish I worked at a bigger campus with some trail riding.

I work at a waste water treatment plant, every other week I do checks on equipment, get to ride a 5 km loop. Which is nice because I haven't been riding and it is easing my fat @zz into it.

You know, I have thought to get a stay at home job where I can work from my bike . That way I can be writing emails or whatever while on my rollers or stationary trainer.

Everyone at work (college) thought I was crazy today for biking around campus at 25○!
Granted I did not bike into work because of salt & ice in spots.
Gee some people made it seem like it was antarctic out there.
I think that is the coldest I've biked at work so far.

Any other diehard 'I gotta keep bikin at work no matter what the weather" ?

I used to ride for an hour at lunchtime. The backroads I used to do that on have been massively developed lately, not sure I would like it so much now. But that extra hour of riding really helped me lose weight at that time which I have since regained and wouldn't mind losing again...

My old office had no good food for several miles. I regularly hopped back on the bike for lunch. It was a nice midday break.

I used to use bicycles to inspect the area on several large bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Did Rumsfeld give you those BSOs? I guess you go to war with the bike you have, not the bike you wish you might have.

The blue bike was given to me by its previous user,I passed it on when I left. I paid $30 for the purple bike and received $30 for it from someone else when I left the country.
Also used this freebie while working in Afghanistan:

haha, one of the Marks of the BSO is branding by a non-bicycle company (Columbia, Jeep, ...) At least this one's a hardtail, the simpler you get, the harder it is to screw things up.

Some of the piano tuners that Steinway pays to service the concert pianos in NYC get around town by bike. I used to know someone with this job, and when he started using his bike he convinced Steinway to give him a bike allowance based on the cab fares and time he saved the company.

Didn't like his politics, but it was a line that clearly holds up to repetition.