You’ve found the perfect room for a home office – and you’ve checked with your spouse to make sure it’s okay that you work at home.
You’ve installed a powerful new computer system with all the bells and whistles, connected a printer that also copies and scans, signed up with Skype, and upgraded your Internet connection.
You’ve even acquired a new ergonomically correct desk chair.
There’s just one thing that you haven’t done … You haven’t yet asked your boss!
Well, if you are in this predicament, here are seven arguments to use in order to persuade your boss to allow you to work from home.
1. You’ll miss fewer work days
Remind your boss of some of the reasons you missed a work day – or were absent a significant portion of a day – over the previous six months. There was the time your daughter was sick and you had to stay home to nurse her. There were those two days last winter when you couldn’t get out of your driveway after a huge snowstorm.
Also, don’t forget that time when you were recovering from a cold and felt well enough to work but stayed home anyway. You were gaining strength but still coughing and sneezing, and so you were afraid of infecting others – and afraid also of scaring people with all the sick sounds coming from your cubicle.
Well, if you had been working at home, most of that time would not have been lost. You would have been able to nurse your daughter during breaks and lunch, without missing a beat. That snowstorm would not have affected you in the least – in fact, you might have grinned in relief as you descended the steps to your basement office, slippers on your feet and coffee in your hand.
As for that day you spent coughing and sneezing at home – well, you could have been coughing and sneezing in your home office, as you went about your work routine.