‘My Boss Keeps Pressuring Me to Stop Working from Home’

AskABoss: 'He is so convinced that we aren’t working that he cut our work-from-home time down two days a couple weeks ago, and now it’s being cut down to one day as of next week — when COVID cases are higher in our city than ever!'

I work for a small company with about 10 employees working full time in the office. We all report directly to the CEO, Phil. When the pandemic hit, Phil went into full panic mode and had us all move our desks 12+ feet apart, wash our hands every 20 minutes, sterilize everything in between uses, etc. Nothing super-weird, and better than having no reaction at all, but it was a hypervigilant process that made me expect him to be very accommodating when our state went on lockdown.

The weirdest thing is that none of us has had productivity problems! My job is such that I can tell when anyone is slacking even a little, and I haven’t noticed any issues. Personally, I’ve actually been MORE productive! I’ve never been accused of “screwing around” while at the office before, so this attitude has baffled me.

An awful lot of managers who were previously opposed to letting people work from home are losing it right now. Opposition to working from home has always been about the fear that people won’t do as much work if they’re not in the same physical location as everyone else — and now that many employers have no choice but to allow it, some managers seem to assume that their trustworthy employees will suddenly transform into slackers if no one’s watching them. It’s insulting.

But because it’s a small company and Phil is at the top, the best thing to do is to have a direct conversation with him about it. I’d start it this way: “I’m getting the sense that you don’t think I’m working when I’m working from home, and I’m wondering if I’ve done something to make you think that. I have a long track record of reliability and integrity, and you know me to have a strong work ethic. In fact, my productivity is higher than usual right now, not lower.

At that point, you can say, “I know you’re not a fan of working from home in normal times, but I want to ask that you look at what I’ve achieved since I’ve been doing it. I am as productive at home as when I’m in the office — more so, in fact. Since we’ve been at home, I’ve achieved things like X, Y, and Z.

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