Add Telecommuting to Your
Request for Part-time Hours
Consider upgrading your part time schedule request by
adding telecommuting, aka telework, working remotely, or
mobile office.
For example, work four days a week: three days at the
office and one from home. Or work six hours on Tuesday
and Thursday, both from home.
Ask for Both or One at a Time?
You know your job and manager, so use your
judgment (and intuition) about asking for both flexible
arrangements at once or sequentially.
If you want part time hours plus telecommuting from
home part of your workweek, you might request the
combination at the same time. It's not unreasonable and
I've seen it work many times. You'll be visible and
accessible at a level that your manager can probably
adapt to.
But if you're going to request
seasonal part time
and you want to work long distance from another
state (e.g., from your condo in Florida during January
and February), I suggest you to take a slower,
transitional strategy.
First request a telecommuting trial some months ahead
of your request for seasonal part time. Maintain full
time hours for now, but work two or three days from
home.
Get your manager used to your working out of the
office yet still communicating effectively as you
maintain or boost your productivity. (It's well
documented that working away from a main office ups
productivity by double-digit percentage points, partly
due to fewer interruptions.)
Meanwhile, if at all possible, do set up your remote
work station at your condo or wherever you plan to go.
Do a free trial of remote access software such as
GoToMyPC or LogMeIn.
Then after proving your ability to work well remotely
(from your home), you can make your pitch for a seasonal
part-time hours, adding that you want to work all
of them remotely.
Millions of today's knowledge workers are working
from virtually anywhere. You can be one of them.
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work part-time and telecommute,
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$27 each).
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