Perhaps you could demonstrate a cost savings and your increased availability to them?
I telecommute 5 days a week but sometimes go into the office, like tomorrow morning.
My team is global and we work over tel/web conferences, email, IM and of course the phone.
Work is what you do not where you do it.
>>Perhaps you could demonstrate a cost savings and your increased availability to them?<<
Tried it. I even supplied them with a PDF white paper quantifying and qualifying the benefits to both the company and employee of working from home. No luck. I think they are just not comfortable with the paradigm. Heck, they can even check that I am logged in via the OC indicator.
It’s important to me because my office is in Seattle, and I earn “Seattle wages” but my home is a small farm in central KY. I have to keep a small condo in Seattle from which I commute every day to the office and use my home more like a “timeshare” right now.