The digitisation of work and the covid-19 pandemic have increased the options for flexible work arrangements. This paper explores what flexibility actually entails in people’s everyday lives. Ethnographic fieldwork in regional Victoria shows that an increasing number of people chose to move regionally from Melbourne, shifting from working from traditional offices five days a week to more flexible weekly routines. Interviews show how this flexibility disperses work throughout multiple locations and temporalities. In doing so, flexibility can be considered a strategy of desensitisation that people adopt to disperse the intensity of their working week. Two vignettes reveal that while flexibility is a need for participants to cope with their caring responsibilities, it also obscures their working habits, thus increasing their labour of creating a legible routine and managing family expectations. The paper concludes by inviting research to move beyond conceptions of flexibility as something inherently good and desirable. Instead, it suggests politicising the notion of flexibility by attending to its complexities, differences — of household, gender, race, ableness, age and location — and consequences of one’s flexibility on others.