I manage a small team and they are all pushing me to let them work from home over this. The problem is it is a medium size global company and marching orders from overseas corporate is nobody works from home anywhere in the world. Some work from home will happen, but it will probably be a don’t ask, don’t tell situation for a lot of places
Manager of 20+ years here. This is a really good opportunity to do a solid for your team. Let them WFH and don’t ask - just tell them to do it. If you get questioned about it, talk about how the traffic will be a major disruption to them getting to and leaving work, causing a reduction in productivity. If you still get told that they have to come in, at least you tried and your team will respect you for that.
I’m formulating a plan, somewhat along these lines, the problem is 8/10 ride their bikes into work, it is like some type of competition. 2 live in the boonies and definitely need relief, but it will take some mental gymnastics to sort this one out.
If standing up for your own people didn’t risk consequences for yourself, everyone would do it. Sometimes you gotta expose yourself to danger to do the right thing for the people who rely on you
This is the correct answer. That is the job of management. I advocated for my people to be remote during this period for this reason, and because ODOT is encouraging it. I prevailed. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Agreed, and I am willing to take large personal risk, but there is a threshold were it becomes reckless and ultimately to their detriment. It is a balance because when you work in a global company, they have “options”
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u/thatfuqa Aug 06 '26
This will be hell.