WFH: Winter edition

[jehovasfitness23]

WFH has been the talk for a year now about how will companies move forward.

Now that winter has set in for many of us in winter climate zones, how has WFH and your company reacted?

Seems one thing not discussed is how this could benefit companies as employees won't have snow days or call out, thus helping the company be more productive. Has anyone heard chatter from the business world on this front?

On one hand I've been greatly lucky to WFH for the past 12 months, and last night work sent out an email basically saying sorry no more snow days, unless you still want to use your leave.

My work is a local gov't so there were times in the past things were shut down and you didn't have to use leave. Now, not the case since WFH.

[cangelosibrown]

No real difference on the Snow Day front for me, our policy has always been to make snow days WFH days. Many people did still manage to get weather days off this week in Texas this week though, tough to work if you don't have power.  I've been WFH for almost 7 years now, so I'm used to it (and am doing it because I love it).

Winter is both the best and the worst time to WFH. Best because I can just stay inside for days at a time and ignore the weather, worst because I will stay inside for days at a time, huddled with a pot of tea and a SAD light. Back in the Before Times, I used to do a nice long half-work/half-vacation trip somewhere warm in the winter. If you subtract 3 weeks from the middle of winter and make it tropical, winter is perfectly reasonable.

[Metalcat]

I'm in Canada, there are no snow days here, you just go to work.

[asauer]

WFH has been the talk for a year now about how will companies move forward.

Now that winter has set in for many of us in winter climate zones, how has WFH and your company reacted?

Seems one thing not discussed is how this could benefit companies as employees won't have snow days or call out, thus helping the company be more productive. Has anyone heard chatter from the business world on this front?

On one hand I've been greatly lucky to WFH for the past 12 months, and last night work sent out an email basically saying sorry no more snow days, unless you still want to use your leave.

My work is a local gov't so there were times in the past things were shut down and you didn't have to use leave. Now, not the case since WFH.

Unfortunately, my leadership team brought all of us managers back 3 days per week.  And they're so desperate to keep 'in office culture' that several of us had to beg to get a delayed start today due to an ice storm.   

[ohio4life]

I also have never had a snow day. We are told we are essential and can legally commute during snow emergencies. They do permit use of all leave types during snow emergencies, though.

[Sibley]

Unfortunately, my leadership team brought all of us managers back 3 days per week.  And they're so desperate to keep 'in office culture' that several of us had to beg to get a delayed start today due to an ice storm.

You need a new job.

[Junco]

Yeah, no more snow days. There are many advantages to the employer to have us all be WFH and honestly, I'm pretty sure 100% of our office employees want to be WFH forever (including me). Unfortunately higher management does keep spewing the "need to bring people back for culture" BS, despite us doing great financially this year and proving WFH works.

Personally, this year of WFH has really enforced in me how stupid it is to go into the office and I feel like eventually going back against my will is going to be this massive personal failure. I'm working to have my side-gig grown to the point that I can quit and CoastFI before they try to bring us back.