Skiving?

[kandr]

I would love to work from home, I wouldn't have to keep up the pretence of working. If I have work to do I would get it done ASAP and chill the rest of the day, without having to Alt-Tab all day.

[Tingles]

Nice forward-looking article from the BBC there. While much of the world is actively promoting home-work as more civilised (not to mention Green ) and the way of the future, they try to undo this by reinforcing what petty middle-aged line-managers already think. "Work from home", they smirk, "maybe you should leave your web-cam on so we can check you're not down the pub".

WFH is not necessarily greener.

[Halo Jones]

Today I am worinking from home & I will achive as little as normal

[MaryPoppins]

Today I am worinking from home & I will achive as little as normal

Me too. Cept working, not sure what worinking is.

[Mich the Tester]

not sure what worinking is.

I think it means working with one hand down the front of your pants.

[Halo Jones]

I think it means working with one hand down the front of your pants.

Damn busted..

[MaryPoppins]

Damn busted..

Ha. Oh in that case, me too then Halo.

[Mich the Tester]

Damn busted..

Jolly good show! Bombs away!

[norrahe]

I did work with one manager who told his team he didn't trust us to work from home.

Some managers do seem to have a problem with it and as Platypus said see it as bums on seats in the office rather than the output therof.
I've had some managers who've told me to work from home and only require me in the office when we have a meeting and others who e-mail or ring every half hour as they don't trust you.

I did tell one micro manager to stop e-mailing and calling me constantly as he was preventing me from getting any work done.

I have no problem with anyone on my team working from home, as long as the work gets done.

You often find that you'll have an average days work done by lunchtime when working from home, or in my case mid morning as I don't have the 2hr commute in.

[VectraMan]

Some managers do seem to have a problem with it and as Platypus said see it as bums on seats in the office rather than the output therof.

That doesn't really fit in with the likes of us being paid per hour/per day. Certainly when I used to work at home 2 days per week for a client, I'd feel a little guilty writing 7 1/2 hours on the timesheet because even though I'd get a day's worth of work done i'd probably get it done in half the day. At least on the "bum on seat" days I'd be physically there for the time.

Most of us should be above that sort of thing, but in truth if you're reliant on getting a timesheet signed by a manager you can understand why the manager might want to know that you were actually working.