Anonymous wrote:Thanks for all of the input. It would be one hour earlier and yes I'd be willing to work on ET as needed. I would be able to have a dedicated office at home which I agree would help. I already have to use my own phone and internet for work purposes because I don't currently have a dedicated office/line, so that'd be no different and I'm willing to continue to pay for that aspect. I wouldn't be as willing to pay for each trip back to HQ so I guess that's a possible point of contention.
The other potential issue is that the reason I can work from home easily now is that the contracts I am on don't require, by nature of the actual contract, working on site. If there was to be an important contract that required even some work on site I obviously couldn't do that. Another potential problem is if my role on a contract requires access to data - something which existing contracts don't require but we anticipate they will within the next year. I suppose we would have to negotiate this aspect with client and ensure a secure data environment - unfortunately in my experience a lot of clients get unnecessarily worked up over this even when the proper protections are in place.
I am more or less the only person on my team with my set of qualifications and certain skills, so I hope that will help convince them. I am not irreplaceable, but yes it would be less work for them to keep me even if it means having to do it from several states away.
I had a 90% telework arragement with a prior employer. It was a pretty good arrangement until a new boss ran the numbers and decided that paying for me to come to HQ 2X a month was more expensive than the overhead it would have cost for me to be in the office - especially since my salary was the same. I was living in a place where an airline ticket to HQ alone was $500. In order for the new boss to get on board, I agreed to cover the trips 50-50 and pay for every other one myself. I do not know if your company has video/web conferencing capability but that seems to work for the people at my current job who telework. GL