'She was fired': Hybrid employee takes a take a sick day instead after being admonished by boss for working an additional day from home while sick
Working remotely has its advantages and disadvantages… While you no longer have to use your own time and money to commute into an office, which is probably open plan (which you loathe,) crammed directly adjacent to your other disgruntled coworkers (whom you abhor,) all that in order to have your time and productivity wasted by meaningless small talk and because you need to "look" busy even though that actually means you're being less productive.
On the flip side, while remote working would certainly be the preferred option for a lot of us. It can be quite isolating when you realize that those coworkers whom you despised so much were the only regular contact you had with other human beings. Despite all the personal freedom you've attained, you're probably going to have your online presence monitored by Orwellian software anyway. You're probably going to struggle to have a defined beginning and end to your workday, too, and on any days when you're sick enough to go into the office, you might be inclined to work from your bed instead.
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The middle ground that companies walk is "hybrid" working, which is reserved for when management doesn't really want to fully relinquish its workers to remote work even though their workers don't really need to ever be present on-site in the first place. Essentially, these workers could work from home all the time, and it wouldn't matter a bit, but there's that 5-year office leasing contract the company signed, and it would be far too embarrassing to admit that it wasn't actually at all necessary and that workers would probably actually be more productive from home.
This hybrid employee was of the sort who might feel compelled to work from home while sick rather than taking the day off—something that should have received commendation from their boss.
Unfortunately, their boss was one of those who was desperate to hold on to the old working ways and struggling to adapt to the hybrid team that she was managing. She made an issue about the fact that the employee hadn't gotten their working-from-home day "pre-approved," which led to the worker taking a sick day instead, leaving their boss to cancel all of their meetings. Which sounds like a fair solution to us…
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