Remote work

[elgerber]

Question for those that work from home: If you wake up and aren't feeling well, do you call in sick or do you just work through it?

I have called in sick, only once, when I had my first true episode of vertigo, and I could literally not move or I would get sick or fall over, and I had no idea what was going on. I work through it.

 

[mamamelody2]

My husband worked from home for about 15 months, then they transitioned back to the office, but at a 1-day-home/4-days-office split. Since the uptick in cases, they have gone to a 3-day-home/2-day-office schedule.
He actually loves working at home. I was surprised because he is pretty social. He is glad to be back to working from home more often. He loves to be able to go outside and work in the yard for a bit, take a walk around the block, etc. He gets more done as people are not always coming up to him to ask questions.

 

[Moliphino]

Question for those that work from home: If you wake up and aren't feeling well, do you call in sick or do you just work through it?

I would work through it if I could. Now that we're back in the office full time but WFH is not completely disallowed, I can still work from home if I'm feeling sick instead of burning a personal day.

 

[shawthorne44]

Question for those that work from home: If you wake up and aren't feeling well, do you call in sick or do you just work through it?

Depends on how sick I feel. I don't have many meetings. Often when I feel ill it is where I feel fine sitting or resting, but walking around is bad. So, then I'll just work. I've also taken a half-day off work, if I feel like I need to take naps. So, I'll work a few hours in the morning, and more in the afternoon, and take naps.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Question for those that work from home: If you wake up and aren't feeling well, do you call in sick or do you just work through it?

Call in sick, we are told we do not have to work through it. We have paid sick time.
Sick time is totally different than our vacation time.
I have noticed our sick time is down immensely since we started working from hone. I think I took off half day last year when I had headache and wanted to lie down.
So far this year only took day off after my vaccination.

 

[clh2]

I lost my job due to the pandemic, and started at a wonderful organization about 6 months ago. My new employer has embraced a flexible work environment. Now granted, this would not apply to production or packaging employees, but. I work in an office. For me, I am currently WFH 1-2 days a week. Kind of depends who is going to be in, and if I need to be home for something. I LOVE this flexibility!

 

[Figment of Speech]

Question for those that work from home: If you wake up and aren't feeling well, do you call in sick or do you just work through it?

I personally haven't had to take sick days while working remotely, but most of my coworkers have at some time or another. I would if I couldn't focus on work, but I haven't had anything worse than a cold in a long time. They usually drop a message in Slack like "I'm fighting a migraine and need to take the rest of the day off." We actually don't have a specific sick day policy, and I've never seen a boss question anyone's need to rest from work.

In large part, I think that's because remote workers have less need in general to take sick days, so as a workplace culture, we know it must be serious when someone does call out. We're exposed to fewer people on a daily basis, so we're less likely to catch something. And if we do catch something that is infectious but not serious, like a cold, we can decide whether to work through it (like I do) or rest up and heal. It's good to work for a company that trusts you to know what's best for yourself.

It also helps that remote work often (though not always) has more flexible hours. So if Hypothetical Coworker Sam is not feeling well in the morning, they might take some time to rest and then be able to jump back in in the afternoon. The flexibility also means that Sam could go to a doctor or clinic without being missed, which in turn means they'll get the prescription they need faster, can get better faster, and can catch up on their work sooner. Not all in-person workplaces have that kind of flexibility.

 

[tzolkin]

Question for those that work from home: If you wake up and aren't feeling well, do you call in sick or do you just work through it?

It also helps that remote work often (though not always) has more flexible hours. So if Hypothetical Coworker Sam is not feeling well in the morning, they might take some time to rest and then be able to jump back in in the afternoon. The flexibility also means that Sam could go to a doctor or clinic without being missed, which in turn means they'll get the prescription they need faster, can get better faster, and can catch up on their work sooner. Not all in-person workplaces have that kind of flexibility.

This is exactly why I love working from home-- specifically with a job that is flexible. I manage a company and the owners give me free range of how I want to set my hours as long as I am generally available during the day for emergencies or to address other time-sensitive issues. I am able to go to medical appointments, lie down for two hours after taking migraine medication, etc and not ever have to take any time off work. I just work at times that work better with my family/personal life. My husband gets up for his job at 4:15 every morning so I'm an early riser too. I have usually already put in a few hours of work before most offices open so if I take a few hours off mid-day it's not an issue. If I had to take an entire day off for being really ill, I could just make the time up on the weekend or on other days.

My sister-in-law also works from home, but her employer monitors her key strokes/mouse movements and phone calls so she will get in trouble if she's gone from her computer too long in the bathroom. She definitely needs to call in sick if she's not feeling well.

 

[firefly_ris]

I have worked from home, self employed since early 2009 and have no intention of ever having a job that requires being in an office at a desk all day. Being self employed I can pick what time of day I get work done, as long as I'm delivering projects to my clients appropriately, and can get away from my desk frequently. Gave me flexibility with 3 young children at home.

 

[aprilgail]

Question for those that work from home: If you wake up and aren't feeling well, do you call in sick or do you just work through it?

My daughter needed to go to the Dr one day and had a 1:00 appointment so she told her job she would take half the day off - they told her not to waste her time off and just take late lunch and go and when she gets back to just keep working the rest of the day out. I know when she is sick she just works through it because she can sit in bed and work in her pajamas (I swear this girl hasn't gotten dressed in months!- she has her night pajamas and her day pajamas lol) My daughter said she is saving so much money working from home, doesn't need to put on make up, doesn't need to buy work clothes, doesn't need a car so no gas or insurance, doesn't need to spend money on train commuting and makes all her lunch at home instead of buying all the time.

 

[shawthorne44]

Even pre-lockdown, we could WFH if we had the sniffles. It is one of the things I've loved about this job. I've been sick a LOT less in the 10 years I've been at this job. Our sick and vacation time is combined into PTO. So, I basically get 4 weeks of vacation time. I keep an excel file to help me monitor my PTO time to make sure I don't hit the max PTO saved.

 

[LYSE]

Question for those that work from home: If you wake up and aren't feeling well, do you call in sick or do you just work through it?

I've only "called in sick" when I was hospitalized

I have done things like moved meetings and taken an easy day if I felt bad

 

[Wendy1985]

Question for those that work from home: If you wake up and aren't feeling well, do you call in sick or do you just work through it?

mine is different then most because I own my company so if it was a light workout at the gym I will tape after heavy work out I won’t tape

if my body needs rest I won’t push my self to go to the gym or tape

 

[aprilgail]

mine is different then most because I own my company so if it was a light workout at the gym I will tape after heavy work out I won’t tape

if my body needs rest I won’t push my self to go to the gym or tape

So do you call off sick or not? Is working out what you do for work???

 

[Wendy1985]

So do you call off sick or not? Is working out what you do for work???

yes I tape workouts and put them in my group on fb

it’s volunteer work but still work not sure if there really is such a thing of calling in because I am the only employe I do have friends that help me but they don’t tape or upload they just answer questions if I don’t have the answer

 

[bcla]

I work in public accounting. The client I currently work for is that far away. My actual office is closer but I don’t actually get to work there.

Someone close to me used to be an accountant and worked on an audit over 100 miles away. But she was put up in a hotel for the duration of the engagement.

 

[bcla]

Apparently Google has been telling employees that they will have their salaries cut if they choose to work from home after they fully open back their offices. And the amount of the cut will depend on where they live. Those with longer commutes to the office will supposedly have the largest pay cut. Some employees had chosen to move to less expensive areas (sometimes in different states) where they could work just the same. I guess that worked when they still got paid the same, but it will eventually result in

https://www.reuters.com/world/the-g...es-who-work-home-could-lose-money-2021-08-10/​

Screenshots of Google's internal salary calculator seen by Reuters show that an employee living in Stamford, Connecticut - an hour from New York City by train - would be paid 15% less if she worked from home, while a colleague from the same office living in New York City would see no cut from working from home. Screenshots showed 5% and 10% differences in the Seattle, Boston and San Francisco areas.​

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Interviews with Google employees indicate pay cuts as high as 25% for remote work if they left San Francisco for an almost as expensive area of the state such as Lake Tahoe.​

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The calculator states it uses U.S. Census Bureau metropolitan statistical areas, or CBSAs. Stamford, Connecticut, for example, is not in New York City's CBSA, even though many people who live there work in New York.​

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A Google spokesperson said the company will not change an employee's salary based on them going from office work to being fully remote in the city where the office is located. Employees working in the New York City office will be paid the same as those working remotely from another New York City location, for example, according to the spokesperson.​

Google's commuting wasn't really that bad because they provided transportation in several areas. They use transportation contractors where employees and contractors can use their buses to get to work. Supposedly with fast enough internet access to get work done on the bus too. And then there's all the perks.

I've actually met a few people whose permanent home was in the Lake Tahoe area but where they worked in the Bay Area. They would come in once or twice a week and rent.

 

[dez1978]

I don't think I've printed a single thing out at my office since 2010

Good grief. I cannot even imagine that. I work in a psych hospital and there is a ton of paper. Even tho almost everything is stored digitally somewhere, there still are hard copies of everything bc there needs to be original signatures on so many things. Heck, I've probably printed off 100 pages so far today and I've been on here for an hour of the day lol

 

[bcla]

Good grief. I cannot even imagine that. I work in a psych hospital and there is a ton of paper. Even tho almost everything is stored digitally somewhere, there still are hard copies of everything bc there needs to be original signatures on so many things. Heck, I've probably printed off 100 pages so far today and I've been on here for an hour of the day lol

You haven't switched to tablets? Granted I've been asked to sign something on a touchscreen with my finger and it was unrecognizable.

 

[dez1978]

You haven't switched to tablets? Granted I've been asked to sign something on a touchscreen with my finger and it was unrecognizable.

nope. we still need actual original signatures on actual paper here. I'm not sure why. Maybe it has something to do with the commitment status here vs at a normal hospital. Here all of our patients are court ordered to be here and it is a secure environment. Like if a prison and a psych hospital had a baby lol. We have the big fence, locked areas etc.