Working From Home Proactively Due to Weather

[agcy68]

How many of you have the option to work from home and are doing just that today due to weather?

Our office has been mostly/some/mostly offsite for almost two years. Managers are starting to see that working from home isn't all bad and allowing some work from home days. With the weather coming in today, I am doing just that to stay off the roads (especially this afternoon).

This is a day that historically I would have driven to work and then fought the weather on the afternoon commute. But new attitudes have emerged and working from home is a valid option now. I talked to a few people in the office yesterday and seemed like quite a few would be doing that as well proactively. Interested in other's environment and changes in attitudes.

 

[cycloneML]

How many of you have the option to work from home and are doing just that today due to weather?

Our office has been mostly/some/mostly offsite for almost two years. Managers are starting to see that working from home isn't all bad and allowing some work from home days. With the weather coming in today, I am doing just that to stay off the roads (especially this afternoon).

This is a day that historically I would have driven to work and then fought the weather on the afternoon commute. But new attitudes have emerged and working from home is a valid option now. I talked to a few people in the office yesterday and seemed like quite a few would be doing that as well proactively. Interested in other's environment and changes in attitudes.

I have been shocked by how things have loosened up. The employee has much more power than I have ever seen.

 

[Althetuna]

I'm still work from home due COVID company policy.

 

[madguy30]

It's been shown that productivity doesn't have to be confined to the office for a long while now.

Obviously not all jobs operate that way and some feel better going TO the place but it's good to see it catching on if something comes up.

Adults can adult.

 

[tyler24]

Think it's fantastic for those that get it. I have a job I have to work face to face with individuals, however, employers need to trust that they hired the right people to do jobs. If you hire the right people, they will do the work that needs to get done regardless of the environment.

 

[Fishhead]

Definitely like the new flexibility allowing me to avoid a normal 20 minute commute that could turn into over an hour.

 

[CyCrazy]

I have been home since Dec 22nd. I dont care how bad it gets,, besides i had wrist surgeery yesterday so its up to the wife.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I could but I don't. Could have throughout the last two years, but most of my coworkers could not, so I didn't. My wife is working from home today to avoid the trip to Des Moines

 

[2020cy]

It really makes sense today. The commute home will be brutal. Leave the roads to the snow plows and you know the stupid semis will be out in full force and you don’t want to get involved in an accident with one of those.

 

[BryceC]

I've been to the office only a handful of times since March 2020, almost 2 years now. I'm starting to go in once a week. I think for white collar jobs the cat is out of the bag and you will give people flexibility or you'll be in a very bad place employee retention wise.

I do think about some times in the last 10 years when I drove to work when the weather was absolutely awful, I mean just terrible, and I think about what a remarkably stupid thing that was but a lot of businesses didn't have the infrastructure to support that many employees at home.

 

[Mr Janny]

Still working from home due to COVID, but if not, I'd still have the option to work from home.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I'm still work from home due COVID company policy.

Same here, in fact if I need to go into the office I have to request access.

 

[KnappShack]

Same here, in fact if I need to go into the office I have to request access.

My building access was shut down. I couldn't go in if I wanted to.

Going on 2 years of fully remote work. Never want to work in an office again

 

[madguy30]

My building access was shut down. I couldn't go in if I wanted to.

Going on 2 years of fully remote work. Never want to work in an office again

Have a friend who's company basically made the building inaccessible or shut it down and they work from home.

They've been able to visit family, etc. for long stretches and still work. Very convenient.

 

[RoseClone]

My company's policy is up to 3 days a week you can work from home and it can be any days of the week. I really think we need to change to an unlimited option as we've had two people turn down jobs because of not having the option of 5 days.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

My building access was shut down. I couldn't go in if I wanted to.

Going on 2 years of fully remote work. Never want to work in an office again

I need to go in today so I told them I would go in at the end of the day. My badge will have to get activated when I show up and they'll deactivate it when I leave. Since they started this policy I've always wondered what would happen if there was an emergency where I had to actually go in during the night.

I should add that we have always been able to make the call that we will be working from home due to bad weather. Since Covid I have a better workstation at home than I do in the office

 

[Drew0311]

I have worked from home for 5 years. I have not even been in the office for 2 years. The only reason I would go back in is to get my computer upgraded or if I have a computer issue. Pretty much my whole office went WFH during covid and nobody has gone back. These huge companies are figuring out that they can downgrade how big their office space is. Look for a bunch of huge abandon buildings in the future.

 

[throwittoblythe]

Joined a company in late 2020 that is 100% WFH, even pre-pandemic. So, I was going to be working from home today anyway.

I have to say, I would struggle to go back to an environment with fixed working hours/location. I have so much flexibility in my work and life right now, it would be hard to beat. I went out with my family mid-day yesterday and ran some errands for a couple hours. Pretty much every day I get home from the gym at 7:30am, watch my son for a half hour or so while my wife gets my daughter ready and takes her to school. Then, I watch him for another 30 minutes in the afternoon while my wife picks my daughter up from school.

Could never do that with an office job.

 

[CRCy17]

Prior to COVID, we were able to work from home 1 day a week. Granted, we would travel 60% of the time anyway, so there would be stretches of 2-3 weeks that I would never step foot into the office. Took me a little bit of adjusting on bad weather days, where early in my time I would try to fight it and make it in, but then quickly decided to take my WFH day where needed. They would also approve extra WFH in certain cases (weather, not feeling well but not a full sick day). Since COVID, we are pretty much fully remote. We are technically "hybrid" and I have the option to go in to work from the office if I want, but we moved further out of the city, and adopted a dog a year ago so those in office days are very very rare for me now.

 

[CYdTracked]

Working the morning in the office and afternoon at home today. Got some tasks I need to physically be in the office to do and have some things I can save to do from home later. I've been going into the office the entire pandemic as I still have things in my job role that require me to be on site to do or support people face to face that I can't do remotely. I have WFH every now and then if the weather is bad but I just drove in now and I would not call this bad weather yet although I know by this afternoon it will probably be a lot trickier to drive so plan is to leave over my lunch hour so I can pick up my kid from school letting out early.