7. You will return if your performance shows decline
You’ll return to working at the office workstation if your next annual performance review indicates any decline in your performance!
Your performance – the quality of your work plus your productivity – is the bottom line. It’s all that really matters to your company.
By letting your boss know that you’re willing to relinquish the privilege of working at home if your performance suffers, you’re showing him or her how serious you are about making the work-at-home option work. That’s bound to impress.
At the same time, making this statement is a way of assuring your boss that you’ll be working very hard indeed – because you don’t want to be forced to follow through on your promise!
These seven tips summarize the best arguments for allowing anyone to work at home. Of course, you have no control over your boss’s response. No doubt he or she already has an opinion about working at home (for better or worse). If your boss has been burned before – by employees who slacked off or lost touch with the office when they began working at home – your proposal may not succeed, despite the quality of your arguments.
However, if your boss is willing to keep an open mind, there’s a very good chance that your arguments will be persuasive.
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