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December 27, 2006
Too sick to drive not too sick to work.
This morning I was scheduled to be in the office, however I found myself coughing and vomiting up a storm.
If I worked at any of my previous jobs I would have called out spent a fair amount of time in bed and generally put putted around the house.
However we now live in the age of telecommuting, so today I sort of called out. I won't be in the office today, but I will be working my normal shift from home so my cough won't be the only thing that is productive about me today.
This is one of the great benefits a company gets from this type of policy. My voice will be a tad off if you call but I can still point and click with the best of them. Nobody in the office will catch whatever I have.
It also leads to the idea that work is the default position. Let's be honest. Many people use sick days as extra days off. When you are able to work from home people have the tendency not to do that.
Will it be the wave of the future? What do you need to make it work, well you can check our old podcast Telecommuting for some of the answers to those questions.
Posted by Peter at December 27, 2006 08:37 AM