"Not allowed to work from home so I don't ✊" ...he has a point, right? What do YOU think? 🏡 👨💻 #remotework #workfromhome #futureofwork
Normalize setting healthy boundaries with your employer just like him. Healthy boundaries like this make it possible to reduce burnout and set expectations that benefit everyone
I think he is playing by the rules. If his management team does not like the end result, they need to re-think their policy.
When you take, people stop giving.
"Oh no, we meant, no working from home when it's best for YOU."
Had a very similar experience, this was before Covid. I had three small children who often were sick and snowstorms that kept me away because I lived in the "country." I asked if instead of losing a day of work, could I work from home when these things happened. I was already taking my laptop home every night and usually did some extra work. The answer was NO. They didn't trust that I would work on those days, but yet needed me to work at night. So.... I stopped working from home completely and they lost all of that productivity.
Companies can't have it both ways. I worked for a local engineering firm. Instead of overtime, we popped in out of hours to reset the machine and keep them running "lights out". The new manager forced us into working OT so I stopped going in out of hours so they actually lost run hours. By the time it dawned on them, I'd left along with others.
“We willl not allow you to work from home….wait, no…..we didn’t mean like THAT”!
Working extra hours, being the goto guy, doing all those things seem meaningless to today's business. So one might as well approach the job this way. I certainly would nowadays.
Reminds me of the manager that wanted us to report the google mapped miles we traveled to and from the airport for client travel. Given the implied lack of trust, I changed to using a taxi service to and from. Reminds me again of still another manager that wanted me to stop staying at a hotel and move into a corporate apartment while on a long-time contract engagement. The apartment was a very nice place but cost the customer about 800$ more monthly for housing expenses. I continued to eat out like at the hotel. Always willing to be compliant.
Systems Administrator at Leidos
1moMalicious compliance is still compliance.