Comments on: Confusion, Home Working and Olympic Pride http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/confusion-home-working-and-olympic-pride/ Sat, 18 May 2013 15:37:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sam http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/confusion-home-working-and-olympic-pride/#comment-6597 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:19:17 +0000 http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/?p=5258#comment-6597 Looks like you had a brilliant day at the Olympics. I went along too – caught some basket ball and hockey. The atmosphere was brilliant – even the showers didn’t bother people.

I work in central London and wanted to work from home but my boss wouldn’t let me. He said we needed to be ‘available all the time’. I can’t quite see why that wouldn’t have been the case is I have a good set up at home. I work for a small law firm but most of my work is online research and I rarely deal with clients. Anyway he pointed me to this article:-

Home working: Why can’t everyone telework?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11879241

Personally I think it is a cop out – bosses just don’t trust their staff – just like Boris.

I am now in the process of negotiating one day at home a week having taken this up with my bosses boss. have small children and just one less day commuting would be so helpful. Wish me luck.

Sam

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