Working from home (maternity leave, job, claim, full-time)
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As long as the job gets done, my personal opinion is that it should be allowed. In my line of work, there are days that start at 6:00 AM and run until 8:00-9:00 PM (travel, plus several meetings). While other days start at 8:00 AM and are over by 2:00 PM. On the quiet days, I have been known to go out for a walk/run, or run an errand, if there are no work activities.
Bottom line: my work is getting done, I am responding to my customers, my manager is happy, and my sales quota is achieved.
Like some of the other responses here, it depends on the nature of your job, what your manager thinks about the idea and the general attitude of the company towards remote working. One thing to note about a remote working drawback: face time in a company really matters if you are looking to be promoted. I personally like working from home, but there are just a lot of variables the weigh all the pros and cons.
Working from home is a sham. I work for one of the major banks who does not get to work from home unfortunately. However I have taken a vacation day here or there and caught co-workers out shopping,beauty salon, etc. when they should have been at home "working" They are are doing their everyday normal, trivial activities on company time....not cool.
bah people just watch oprah or ellen. I'm allowed to WFH but I very rarely use it because I know its unproductive.
WFH needs a lot of discipline which of course is not common. I used to WFH very often and depending on the day and schedule, I would either be working 12+ hours remotely (at times from my patio!) or taking a break every couple hours to watch the tv/run errands. I strongly support WFH (provided it is fairly used) as it allow worklife balance.
The one who pretends to WFH and goes shopping or get a pedicure is the kind who would be wasting time even if she were physically at her desk. Unproductive people will be unproductive no matter where they work. If the manager can trust someone who is around the globe sitting at an offshore office, the one who you don't talk to or see everyday, why is it a problem to have someone on his team work remotely a couple times a week? If the quality of work is not being compromised, who cares where one works from!?!
WFH needs a lot of discipline which of course is not common. I used to WFH very often and depending on the day and schedule, I would either be working 12+ hours remotely (at times from my patio!) or taking a break every couple hours to watch the tv/run errands. I strongly support WFH (provided it is fairly used) as it allow worklife balance.
The one who pretends to WFH and goes shopping or get a pedicure is the kind who would be wasting time even if she were physically at her desk. Unproductive people will be unproductive no matter where they work. If the manager can trust someone who is around the globe sitting at an offshore office, the one who you don't talk to or see everyday, why is it a problem to have someone on his team work remotely a couple times a week? If the quality of work is not being compromised, who cares where one works from!?!
WFH needs a lot of discipline which of course is not common. I used to WFH very often and depending on the day and schedule, I would either be working 12+ hours remotely (at times from my patio!) or taking a break every couple hours to watch the tv/run errands. I strongly support WFH (provided it is fairly used) as it allow worklife balance.
The one who pretends to WFH and goes shopping or get a pedicure is the kind who would be wasting time even if she were physically at her desk. Unproductive people will be unproductive no matter where they work. If the manager can trust someone who is around the globe sitting at an offshore office, the one who you don't talk to or see everyday, why is it a problem to have someone on his team work remotely a couple times a week? If the quality of work is not being compromised, who cares where one works from!?!
^ this.
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