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10 Ways to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work From Home

October 22nd, 2008 @ 9:43 am

Categories: BNET, Management, TechRepublic, Workplace

Tags: Boss, BNET Staff

telecommute.JPGHat Tip: Writing over at our sister pub, TechRepublic, consultant Susan Harkins offers ten valuable tips on how to convince your boss to allow you to telecommute:

  1. Your place is cheaper than theirs
  2. Your productivity will increase
  3. Employee retention will go up
  4. You’ll increase your billable hours
  5. You’ll be running with the crowd
  6. Your relationships will improve
  7. It’s the green thing to do
  8. Politicking will go down
  9. You’ll be more accessible
  10. It’s a weather-proof arrangement

For details on each of these convincing arguments, check out Susan’s post, or download the pdf as a cheat sheet.

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    VT3000

    10/23/08 | Report as spam

    RE: 10 Ways to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work From Home

    Politicking will go down! HA! that never happens.. the world is evil that you think it is sad

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    mdpenning

    11/03/08 | Report as spam

    RE: 10 Ways to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work From Home

    is that word even english or just someone trying to sound smarter than they really are?

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    yunfei Cao

    12/08/09 | Report as spam

    RE: 10 Ways to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work From Home

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