>>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.
The company I use to work for (DoD Company), I was in my last week before layoff and after refusing to move to the East coast, one interesting job came up and the manager was pretty decent person. It involved no classified work whatsoever and could easily be done remotely. I live in Colorado and the position was in Maryland. I asked him if it would be possible to do this remotely and he said yes but he remarked that management may not like it. He asked and the mgt team insisted on a live person there. I didn’t want to move to Maryland. The person remarked there would be no issue but the higher ups wanted a warm body there ! I took the lay off at the end of the week.
> 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.