"… Given the choice, most workers don’t care about having the flexibility to set their own hours if the trade-off is lower pay, a new study finds.
This was “the first, surprising, finding” from an experiment in which various work arrangements and pay were randomly offered to people applying for jobs at a national call center, according to the researchers, economists Alexandre Mas of Princeton University and Amanda Pallais of Harvard University." …
http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/work-home-pay-cut-weird-hours/2016/10/07/id/752146/
I call bs on most people doing it. it is just fantasy talk, but if you actually had the papers to sign to change their pay/work arrangement they would not do it…of course some would but most would not go ahead with it. (IMO)
People who are paying big $$ for after school care may be more likely to do it.
8% pre-tax is less than some spend on gas and parking in my area (and those come AFTER tax), so yes… Plus, there are other savings that can be realized.
When my kids were younger and I spent money on afterschool and commuting by car, it might have been worthwhile. Instead, we gave up my husband’s office and moved his practice into the house to avoid aftercare expenses. Now, I buy a monthly train ticket so working from home wouldn’t be as financially feasible and I need the extra $ for college costs.
I just talked to somebody yesterday whose boss is dealing with abuse of the “working” at home concept. the problem is many people non self employed abuse the system. (self employed people either sink or swim working from home but is on them and their dime)
if you do accounting your boss can see your remote access and see how much actual work you are doing. just clicking on pending invoices every 1/2 hour - hour is not going to cut it.
^In my previous job I worked from home a lot. But I rarely ever logged in. I used my phone to check emails and make calls and worked on projects on my desktop so remote access tracking would not have shown how much I worked. Most at my company did it the same way. And I did take a payout for the flexibility and loved it. I can see many in my generation having this attitude. We prefer work life balance.
I’d do it in a heartbeat. But I work from home as it is. But not having to get nice work clothes, sit in my car for 1.5 hours+ per day, etc? I’d probably save money.
I don’t have kids though.
My S works from home two days a week. He logs into a remote desktop, and as far as I understand, his work is trackable. But I think it’s more like, he has defined projects and deadlines, so he can’t mess around (not that’s he’s looking to.) He loves it because of not facing rush hour commute plus expenses of that. He did not have to take a pay cut though.
Marissa Mayer, CEO at Yahoo, is one of my favorite executives for Internet based companies. One of the first things she did was greatly cut back on working from home. I know some employees at Yahoo. They said the work at home philosophy was terribly abused. For every one self-starter there were 10 slackers who did only enough at home to keep their job.
There were a few top-performing employees who quit because of a sense of entitlement to do things their way. Most of the employees who left were slackers who got use to doing very little at home and didn’t like having to actually work eight hours a day.
I have a very lenient telecommute policy, so … no. This would not appeal to anyone.
with the commute time in this area, yes, worth it
When I took my current job, I was told that I could go to court in the morning and work from home in the afternoon. I often chose to go into the office anyway because I enjoy the collegiality. Now, the company has cut way back on working from home and will be tracking, though it’s not necessarily directed at the lawyers.
I know they track our internet, etc. so I would never use a site like this one from my work computer. When I work at home, I have both computers on at the same time. The only sites I access are local newspapers, my kids’ schools and things like amtrak.
I would give up a little bit of pay to be able to work from home if it was snowing or icy out. They used to let us do that, now we have to take a vacation day if the railroad is down so I just leave the home access off on those days.
The company I work at is small compared to the multi-national one I worked for previously. Once, I got called on the carpet for calling home too much. I switched my cell phone plan to an unlimited after that so I could call as much as I wanted to. Now, I only call home occasionally, usuallly when my boss is out so that they know I am in the office.
I mean, I only call home from the office phone occasionally. I call from my cell often.