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Booting Up Is Not Work: Federal Court Clarifies Pay Rules for Remote Employees
On September 4, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio concluded that the workday starts when remote call center workers begin operating a program or application they use as part of the principal work activities they are employed to perform, not when they first engage their computers. This ruling, in Lott v. Recker Consulting LLC, supports arguments that the compensable workday in remote call center environments is shorter than the time elapsed between boot-up and boot-down.
