A remote worker who starts his job at 7:30 a.m. and takes afternoons off says the schedule 'makes it a lot easier to manage my focus, my energy, and just my overall attitude'

• Remote workers taking afternoons off are powering a boom in golfing and other leisure activities.
• Tom Maganas has been operating on that schedule for about 20 years. He says it's worked for him.
• Maganas likes to work from about 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., then pick back up around dinnertime.

If you're looking for Tom Maganas in the afternoon, you might want to try the golf green or the ski slopes.

Maganas, 60, is one of the many American remote workers powering an afternoon-leisure boom. He works from about 7:30 a.m. to about 1:30 p.m. at his sales job, takes the afternoon off to get outside and do things he enjoys in his home state of Pennsylvania, and then usually picks back up with work before dinnertime.