re: Weather: work from home request?

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Remote working isn't the problem.

Lazy employees who take advantage of remote work situations to screw off and incompetent employers who don't have the backbone to discipline lazy employees and instead punishing that whole company workforce are the problem.

There are a multitude of resources and programs available to monitor and track remote production if one chooses to utilize them.

Trust me, your more responsible and dedicated employees would greatly respect and appreciate your acknowledging their hard work and dedication rather than your refuel to deal with problem employees and lumping everyone into the same category.

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In 20 years most people will be working remotely. Progressive companies looking for a competitive advantage will be managed by folks in their 20s today who do not need to keep tabs on their employees every second. They will measure job performance on production, not the number of hours spent eating birthday cake a week.

The one thing that ALL remote work advocates need to keep in mind though is this...if your job can be done from Georgia and your "office" or employer is in California there are very few circumstances where your job could not be done from India, for example. Some jobs requiring citizenship for security purposes would be an exception but outside of that if you can do your job more than a typical commute from the office there is no difference in it being done half way around the globe.