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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't ask. And I say that as someone who did this exact thing without any problems from my employer. In my case, I changed jobs after my maternity leave to a firm that was expressly hiring for an all-remote, flex hours, 20 hours a week job (specifically, they were looking for a lawyer, likely a new mom, to do flexible research on their own time without needing to bring on a full time position).  My husband needed to spend a month overseas for work so we made a family trip of it. It wasn't that big of a deal based on the already very flexible, independent nature of my job.  That said, I only asked because I knew I was likely quitting in the next year (I did).

The reason I wouldn't ask is because this is just one more thing you're "asking" for.  I am now back at a regular firm, and it is super flexible, no one asks where you are so long as you get your work done. I come in late regularly, work from home regularly. It's fine. But I don't "ask" for anything. Because I speak from experience that when you are a boss, there are some employees who are always asking for something.  And employers notice. My boss does not notice that I work from home twice a week. He genuinely doesn't notice or care. If I was asking him every week "joe, is it okay if I work from home on Friday?" he'd of course say yes, but after about three weeks he'd start logging the ridiculous number of times I work from home and would almost certainly start to think I was abusing the system.  I think a month working out of the office on a different time zone is such an unusual request that, taken by itself it is fine. But then your DD will get sick the following week and you'll work from home, and then one day the plumber is coming, etc etc and now you've set yourself up for your boss to be kind of skeptical eye-roll-y. [/quote]

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