This article is basically about “How to ask to work at home”.
It suggests a good point though… as the price of gasoline rises, utilities rise, etc. companies in a bad economy may have a new incentive to let you work at home.
If they have enough “dark cubicle” days, they could see savings in electricity, heating, and cooling bills that could add up if they’re really pinching pennies.
If you worked at home it’d be YOUR water, lights, heat, and air conditioning you’d be using. Less overhead to them.
(Of course it’d be less expense to YOU, but when you’re selling something like this, you have to talk about benefits to the employer!)
The dark side is that you might be out of sight and out of mind. Good advice on making your pitch to work at home. Think through the consequences first though.
Texas Data Entry Ranger on May 19th, 2008 at 1:53 am
That’s exactly how I ended up working from home. I didn’t answer an ad in the paper or click on a link that promised the Earth. One Friday afternoon about 18 months ago, my boss asked me to take some work home to complete over the weekend. When he saw how productive I could be he suggested I work at home permanently.
k.n.venugopal on May 19th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
if this is free of registering i am intrested