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To whomever created this: You should offer a button to skip to the next excuse without rating it. I'm interested to see other suggestions, but I don't want to alter the rating.
Sick, seriously? If I would call my boss and tell him I'm working from home because I'm sick he would say no you don't.
Show up wearing a surgery mask. That'll give them a clue.
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Eh, the other comments are overreacting. If I was vomiting constantly, of course I wouldn't try to work. But if I felt contagious-but-not-really-impaired, just sneezing or whatnot, I don't see any reason personally why sitting (at home) at a computer and watching Netflix is going to help me recover faster than sitting (at home) at a computer and working.
> But if I felt contagious-but-not-really-impaired, just sneezing or whatnot, I don't see any reason personally why sitting at a computer and watching Netflix is going to help me recover faster than sitting at a computer and working. Cold and flu kill old people. By going into work you are spreading disease to your co-workers, who then spread it to their family, who then risk death because you didn't want to work fro…
But yes, I have great distaste for people who could work from home while sick and instead ruin the productivity of the entire office for what can be months afterward.
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Same here - in fact, I've had to say this to members of my own team recently. It's strictly forbidden by HR - if you're sick, you take days off until you're better, so you are not putting yourself at risk of getting worse/prolonging the issue by not getting the rest you need. WFH is not there as a handy tool to avoid recording sick leave.
What a shitty place. If you feel under the weather, you're starting to get some sniffles or a little bit of a sore throat, just work from home. Sick time is for when you are actually sick, work from home is a tool for when you might be getting sick so you don't spread it. Personally, I don't need excuses, I work from home whenever. It does seem that it is a rare place that treat's its emplpoyees as adults though.
Does your employer not treat its employees as adults? Shouldn't adults be able to be honest about how many sick days they need, without tracking?
I need to concentrate and can get work done without the distractions I'm surprised that this one has so many down votes. I use it frequently and for me is one of the best reasons for WFH.
The reason I said this wouldn't fly is that it's very much like a "because I want to" type of answer. It's almost certainly true, but it's not that much better than me telling my boss that I want to WFH so I don't have to answer my desk phone. I will get more things of value done, but it's also my job to answer the phone when it rings.
What's more interesting is that the reasons to work from home are isolated from productivity.
If you need a day off, take a day off. If you need to work from home, and it doesn't hurt the team, work from home. If you need excuses to not come in, you are in the wrong job, and that's a total bummer, because you could be doing something you enjoy that has an impact you care about.