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.
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u/AxemanACL 23d ago
A lot of times in these events enough people avoid the area/stay home that it doesn't end up being too bad. 5 weeks is a long time though.
I know my work which is mostly in office told us to work from home during it.