4. You will attend an important meeting
If there’s an important meeting – or even a key team-building activity – you’re willing to break your routine and come to the office to participate. In other words, you’ll make yourself available whenever the boss feels it’s important that you appear in the flesh! Now, this assurance may seem contrary to the direction you want to go. Nevertheless, it is a great idea – unless you plan to move across the country – to offer this commitment.
Your willingness to make yourself available removes one big concern from your boss’s decision-making process.
Your commitment to come into the office whenever necessary makes the work-at-home option feel less like an all-or-nothing decision for him or her.
In other words, the fact that you’ll be in the office occasionally makes “breaking up” a little less “hard to do”!
Aside from those considerations, it really is a good idea to rub shoulders occasionally with your work colleagues. Telephone, e-mail, Skype, and video-conferencing are great – but face-to-face contact is indispensable in terms of developing relationships and building team spirit.
Since you’ve been commuting to the office full-time until now, going in occasionally should not be a huge sacrifice. Also, keep in mind that your boss is unlikely to take you up on this offer more than absolutely necessary.