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<blockquote data-quote="AvgJoe" data-source="post: 688013" data-attributes="member: 22922"><p>Air_upser is right on. Why do we have this old school or package car center manager mentality? I give the drivers all the credit in the world for the very difficult job they have but we perform and entirely different and important job in IS. How efficient is it for an employee to spend hours commuting on a bad weather day when they can be much more efficient working from home for the day? We are all on instant messenger, email, cell phones, etc.. so wouldn't it be fairly easy to hold an employee accountable to complete their assigned work? Would it make business sense if the employee was in an accident due to the terrible road conditions and hurt themselves or others? What would that cost be? We love to brag on how "green" a company we are. If the 3,000+ ISNJ employees worked 1 day from home, how much fuel does that save?</p><p> </p><p> I thought it was interesting that DS put an email out after my original post explaining the working from home program. I give him credit for asking for solutions for coming up with a better idea to handle this in the future. Portfolio Mgrs - here's what not to do: Don't update the info line with "business as normal" BS when the weather forecast is calling for 100% certainty there is signficant snow amounts. If we can't get by the mistrust issue and allow people to work from home - Don't offer to buy breakfast the FOLLOWING DAY for employees who came to the office on the snow day. You are only alienating those that thought it was too dangerous to drive in. It wasn't even offered to all that worked in Ramsey - only IT. Instead, buy donuts / coffee the DAY OF the next snowstorm. That being said, I'm glad they decided to pay the hourly folks for the entire day if they came in the day of the snowstorm. That was a good decision.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AvgJoe, post: 688013, member: 22922"] Air_upser is right on. Why do we have this old school or package car center manager mentality? I give the drivers all the credit in the world for the very difficult job they have but we perform and entirely different and important job in IS. How efficient is it for an employee to spend hours commuting on a bad weather day when they can be much more efficient working from home for the day? We are all on instant messenger, email, cell phones, etc.. so wouldn't it be fairly easy to hold an employee accountable to complete their assigned work? Would it make business sense if the employee was in an accident due to the terrible road conditions and hurt themselves or others? What would that cost be? We love to brag on how "green" a company we are. If the 3,000+ ISNJ employees worked 1 day from home, how much fuel does that save? I thought it was interesting that DS put an email out after my original post explaining the working from home program. I give him credit for asking for solutions for coming up with a better idea to handle this in the future. Portfolio Mgrs - here's what not to do: Don't update the info line with "business as normal" BS when the weather forecast is calling for 100% certainty there is signficant snow amounts. If we can't get by the mistrust issue and allow people to work from home - Don't offer to buy breakfast the FOLLOWING DAY for employees who came to the office on the snow day. You are only alienating those that thought it was too dangerous to drive in. It wasn't even offered to all that worked in Ramsey - only IT. Instead, buy donuts / coffee the DAY OF the next snowstorm. That being said, I'm glad they decided to pay the hourly folks for the entire day if they came in the day of the snowstorm. That was a good decision. [/QUOTE]
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