The flu usually takes 3–5 days to recover—but how can I manage a four-day in office while I’m still sick? Taking 4 days off doesn’t make sense.
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Although company-wide and teamworks had indicated you can use remote on occasions, the reality was far different let me explain.
Often times they would be totally against people wanting to use remote time. Unless it was strictly the Monday and Friday.
Say if you needed to take off for a family emergency and work would be behind, you offer to log in later remotely. You couldn't do it, you have to take pto. Wouldn't be fair to others it was always the old argument 'if we let one we have to let the others.'
Then you find out though, though it wasn't ever announced that somedays that people, management included would be nowhere to be seen in person, but be online.
Very wishy washy and teacher pet kinda thing going on with some employees. Some could get away with it others weren't allowed.
Nobody tells you that side of the experience.
Whatever days you don’t make it in this week you make up the next week by being in the office. Or take PTO. Been this way for years.
If your sick, just go into the office, sit in your cubicle and every time you need to sneeze or cough, do the Prairie Dog move behind the cubicle wall and sneeze/ cough your germs over the wall creating a drizzling mist of your diseased spittle. If you have the opportunity to be in the natural light, you could create a rainbow! And your d-mb co workers can try to find the pot of gold. Meanwhile everyone is sick, and they have to quarantine the area because they believe a lab created airborne he---s virus is plaguing everyone and, dang it, you'll have to work from home while they go in and do a professional cleaning and sanitation of said bio-hazzard.
Use 1/2 days worse case
Please come into the office to infect as many people as possible.
That’s what PTO is for. Vacation, sick days, etc.
there is guidance about this on Teamworks. managers have some discretion to you know, manage and if you are sick or something else comes up and you are well enough to work they can go e you ak exception for the week. there is a check in process in workday for them to do it. start by talking to your manager, if they say it's fine then get it in an email and stop worrying.
@bh Sick leave, not PTO
I was told me that a check-in would be necessary for using my PTO for illness; I don’t know what the right way to handle things anymore is when nothing is documented and there’s no consistency.
How stupid of a question is this?
Sick days are padded into your PTO. If you’re sick, stay home! Wow.
And miss out on the valuable opportunities for company culture, spontaneous collaboration, and cross-functional communications? Nope.
I'd need to be in an iron lung before that'd even be a consideration.
This will impact only next year
You mean all those employees who reported up to no one, who were essentially freelancers just setting their own agendas each day without management, monitoring, or accountability?
The irresponsible employees forced kindhearted management into this. There was simply no other option. Sure thing, bootlicker.
If its just a few days you can work from home and make it up by working in office 5 days the next week. The inoffice report is based on a rolling average so its totally fine if one week is down if the next is up,unless your team has more strict rules. You can also ask your manager for a short term flexible work arrangement. I wouldn't burn PTO just to avoid the office unless you are genuinely not able to work, that's a waste of good time off.
@ah you aren't 'sticking it to the man' by coming in sick, you are sc--wing over all the people who are also tired and exhausted of the mind games of this place. The least you can do is be kind to your coworkers. Lead by example, be a better human.
@ax the problem with your statement is that a huge number of employees would abuse the system to get more remote days, just like people abused WFH during the pandemic and ruined remote work for everyone.
That is what PTO is for. I know that on our team, we could work from home if sick but would have to make up that time by coming into the office on our WFH week. I get it, I'd rather not burn through my PTO for being sick, but that is what it's supposed to be used for.
It isn’t about the ability to work, it is about being contagious. There is no cure for that so no point in seeing a doctor. I thought we had progressed enough to be adults and decide when it was prudent to stay away from others to avoid spreading contagious illnesses when we have the capability. In the office, we are well within six feet of each other (as determined by the science).
If WF allowed remote work for "being sick" how long til the usual crowd never showed up for work again due to a series of unfortunate illnesses that keep them WFH forever? We all know who those people are on our teams. They're the same ones we never saw the first two years of RTO and are the reason our lives now su-k. Thanks alot.
I haven't missed five days of work due to illness in the entirety of my 30 year career. If you think youre gonna need five days off to recover from being sick once you must be in dire straits and may want to consult a physician.
Yeah, I'm not burning my PTO when I'm sick. If I can at all manage to drag myself in, I'm coming. You can use your PTO if you are concerned about disease transmission...
No. If they want RTO, they get the germs and longs stints on the cr-pper.
This is what PTO is for…
Advil Cold and Flu makes RTO possible :)
If you are sick and can't work, use PTO.
If you are well enough to work, but worried about infecting others, ask your manager for short term flexibility from the in office expectations.
That’s what all that PTO you are given in for, use it when you are sick. It isn’t all just for fun vacations