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Every company iv'e worked through touts their wonderful telecommute policy! However, in practice, it's not always that great b/c it's still a "be seen" culture and those that arent seen are often forgotten.
I hope companies adopt very liberal policies soon - it would save so much in costs. given the modern technology and prevalence of residential broadband, there is no reason companies should incur the expense of onsite employees.
I think we are going to see more and more of this. The cost to the company to not provide office space is a huge savings. I work in software, and it is really silly to have a software engineer travel to come into the office to spend time writing programming code which can be done anywhere.
I'll be telecommuting tomorrow if we get the 4" of snow predicted. It's rare here and all down hill to the freeway. My people are allowed to telecommute on an as-needed basis but have to tell me in the morning what they will be working on, and have taken home their laptop or tablet.
I'm in the New York City metro area, and if the weather gets bad employers usually tell employees to work from home that day. So most have a laptop they use in a docking station in the office and bring home the laptop if they except bad weather to work from home. I know people who regularly bring home their corporate laptops to connect to work just in case. Because of corporate security you can't use the network remotely without the corporate laptop.
At home, I have a high energy five year old who gets in between 3:30 pm and 5:00 pm depending on weather, a four month old, a wife who works from home four to five days a week and a nanny. Let's just say that I am very happy to get to peace and quite(relative) of the office every day. And I am happy to get back to my family in the evening. I do love my family as long as I don't have to see or hear them all day long
My commute is long, 70-85 minutes, but it is all walking or trains. Most of the time I get a sit and can relax and take a nap.
The actual work form home policy at our company is up to an individual manager. My manager prefers everyone to be in the office if possible. He is however OK if employees need to work from home to take care of something, if there is an emergency, snow, train delays, family situation, etc. I end up working from home about twice a month and I have to ask for it every time(short e-mail) and book it in Leave Tracker system. So far, he has never said no. I also worked one day from home for a few months after our baby was born and my parental leave was over. But I definitely prefer the office...
Some people have a guest house or a room over the garage, in other words, something detached from the rest of their home so they can work there in quiet.
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