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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your husband can WFH, he just needs to get over it and ask to WFH more often. Your kids aren't babies and should need only minimal help. My kids are awesome when sick (and by awesome I mean I can get work done). They are lethargic, take naps and just want to veg. They're high energy when not sick during teacher work days and I really can't work during those. [/quote]

He gets anxious about working from home because he was told at one point that they could no longer WFH (even though he did for whole months during the pandemic!). He recently got approval for 2 days but they do not want it being a frequent thing.  He also said that he's the ONLY one asking to WFH.  His immediate team is mostly middle-aged men who do not have young children at all so they don't have this issue.  He sometimes just REFUSES to ask and it puts me in a huge bind.

I've come across as flaky and unreliable at work and I've struggled alone to figure this out.  If I tell my husband that I simply CANNOT take off as I'm under review and they've brought up my attendance....he'll say that he can't take off or thinks he will be fired (though I think that's mostly him just being anxious).  They quite literally brought up my sick time with my kids during my last meeting with my boss!! They had the flu this october and were out a week.  That's the bulk of it but there's been scattered days since then. I did not even ask to WFH that week because I knew they didn't like people asking so I did what work I could but TBH, my kids were both really sick, miserable and grumpy and did not allow me to work at all that week.  I got a little done in the evenings but it was a really hard week! [/quote]

PP here. This is your answer- get DH to ask. Frame it as an extended period of illness, not intended to be a way to just get WFH, and he should ask if he should get HR involved. As long as his work is excellent, I don't see the issue. WFH with older, sick kids is nbd. It's nothing like WFH with a toddler.[/quote]

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