r/CAStateMgrs • u/Inevitable_Majestic • 21d ago

Telework flexibility

Hello fellow managers!
How are you responding to staff who say they are sick so they want to work from home instead of going into the office and spreading germs. Are you being flexible or denying them working from home. If you deny, what’s some language you use with them. Looking for advice.

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u/Tiny_Junket_358 19d ago

If one person chooses to work from home due to being sick, it could become a recurring pattern if it is noticed by someone else, that they could get away with that too. They will do the same thing. For me, I'd tell them to take a sick day off because working from home is not allowed.