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I know a handful of professionals who don’t want to work from home at all…but even those people admit that they want the flexibility to work from home on days w
by dionidium 9y ago
I know a handful of professionals who don’t want to work from home at all…but even those people admit that they want the flexibility to work from home on days when their kids are sick, the car has a flat, or workers are coming, rather than having to take time off of work.
Is this a problem that people who work in technical fields actually have? Even in companies with aggressively unfriendly WFH policies, I've had good luck requesting time at home in situations like the above.
- JenMcCown 9y agoYes. I have a colleague whose kids get sick a lot, and they're very concerned that a firing is imminent for that reason.
- sjg007 9y agoFamily Medical leave might be helpful.. You can schedule it e.g. take 1 day off a week or something. It's protected.
- JenMcCown 9y agoIt's a lot harder to navigate that one might think, and FMLA is for serious illnesses, not "one kid got the flu this week and another got the runs last week and before that it was stomach upset and before that..." etc.