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Reasons to work from home
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Re: Reasons to work from home
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think it matters a lot whether sick days are tracked. If they aren't, taking a sick day when you're under the weather, so you're on your feet tomorrow, is entirely reasonable. If they are, then you're wasting an allocated sick day, yes. 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?
Sick and I don't feel the best are different things. Sick I need to stop and rest, I don't feel the best could be I didn't sleep much the night before or I could be coming down with something. Neither of the latter requires me to stop working, causing work to pile up for myself and others on the team. I do however, have the option of playing it safe and trying not to infect others while also not causing a back log of work.
Forcing a sick day because I woke up with a headache and a sore throat that could be nothing is not going to endear the company to an employee, on the otherhand that same situation that turns out to be something but I have to come in because I'm not sick yet is prettyshitty to everyone else you come in contact with. In both cases, working from home is the safe course of action.
Now, where I work, that option is fully supported. I, and basically every full time employee, has a vpn and a ip phone. There is nothing about my job that requires physical presence in the office on a normal day, and with the team spread out accross the US anyway, my being in the office or remote really are the same thing as far as everyone else is concerned. I can work from home (doing it right now) simply because I felt like it that day.
> Shouldn't adults be able to be honest about how many sick days they need
Yep, but I'm talking about when you're not sick, but you feel like you might be coming down with something, or you're feeling like you're over it but we all know you're probably still infectious. A fully supported working from home environment allows you to be far more conciderate to those you work with. Hell you can also get more rest, since that appears to be what many are hung up on, because you no longer have a commute those days, but still get stuff done because you don't feel like you're dying.
Re: Reasons to work from home
#53I 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 post links to that exact quote, so everybody clicks "this won't fly" to get another quote. OP should have removed "?quoteId=132" from the URL or the author should have used a system for not changing the URL (e.g. POST, reloading or AJAX).
Re: Reasons to work from home
#54Most of these seem like excuses to take a personal/sick day, not value added by working remotely.
Also, the number of times 'locked in my own bathroom' and 'locked inside my own house' come up is startling! Whats life like for those people :S
Re: Reasons to work from home
#55hi guys, i created this together with @bencxr. thanks for the support! sorry about the server issues, was not expecting it to blow up when i went to bed :p no excuses though, its fixed now! happy monday!
Re: Reasons to work from home
#56I 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 post links to that exact quote, so everybody clicks "this won't fly" to get another quote. OP should have removed "?quoteId=132" from the URL or the author should have used a system for not changing the URL (e.g. POST, reloading or AJAX).
thanks for the suggestion :) will definitely look into that!
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#57To 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.
thats a great suggestion :)
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#58FYI, it's a little confusing initially what you're meant to do with this. I clicked one of the buttons repeatedly without realising I was essentially voting.
Re: Reasons to work from home
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think it matters a lot whether sick days are tracked. If they aren't, taking a sick day when you're under the weather, so you're on your feet tomorrow, is entirely reasonable. If they are, then you're wasting an allocated sick day, yes. 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?
> 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?
Should they? Yes.
However, by your definition the vast, vast majority of employers do not treat their employees like adults. Even those in this industry, which seems to be the only one to adopt "take as you need" sick and vacation time in any significant way.
This is mostly a reaction to the incredulity I (perhaps mis-)read in your statement.
Re: Reasons to work from home
#60I 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.
We have a pretty liberal WFH policy (well, as liberal as it can be when the expectation is that you come in unless you have a "good" reason). 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 do…
But it's a phone, so forward the number and take it on your phone, or switch it to a mobile line. Yes this is very much a "because I want to" answer, but I think looking for reasons to work from home is the wrong way to think of this issue. We shouldn't have to and it should be the default, because I (and I'm sure many others) can't think of a single reason I need to be in the office to get my job done and still be in contact. I think the 8-12 hour workday is societal conditioning that's going to take a very long time to break.