AIBR to ask work if I can work remotely today ( chucking it down with snow currently)

[PurpleCat44]

It’s heavy snow and I have a long commute. Is it reasonable to ask them if I can work remote? ( I am able to work remotely and do so once a week).

Not just reasonable, sensible and safety-concious.

If you have an office job where you can wfh then why wouldn't you in this example? Let those that can't wfh attempt to get to work. My mum lives in the North West and will be getting my dad to drive her in as trains are notoriously unreliable in the snow.

It seems perfectly logical especially given you work remotely every week anyway, it amazes me anyone would need the input of Mumsnet to decide!

Currently unemployed. I would have walked to work if I was still there as my road is bad when it snows. You can’t WFH if work in a shop!

I have a minor op this afternoon and DF and I take the bus. We are driving in - hoping that some people may cancel their appointments or not visit patients in hospital due to the snow.

Your original post was rude. And I’m wondering if you’re posting on multiple threads just now because you seem confused. There isn’t one single post here supporting or agreeing with anything you said. Not one. And in the voting so far 95% agree with OP. So my keen ‘bat perception’ leads me to believe you’re just here for an argument.

I'm probably going to cancel my client visits today - while the roads are OK where I live, I have to go out onto the rural roads in the north of the county where if it snows they tend to get it very badly and I'm looking at the public transport and school disruption and it looks like they've got it pretty badly up there. I have other work I can do from home, but it's not worth the risk because it'll take a while for the quieter side roads to be cleared so I'll just be sat in traffic from idiots crashing.

Hope all goes well with your operation.

Two thanks

No need to be so rude.

Its not even freezing. Even where its settling its quickly melting. The roads are fine

Yabu unless you live in scotland/far north or have at least a couple of inches lying snow. Its snowing heavily where i live too but it was fine getting to the train station & the trains are all running no problem.

@PurpleCat44 I apologise that my post came across as rude
Just reminded me of times trying to run a service (in the past) under such circumstances, where at the 1st sign of 'weather' a couple of staff members would suddenly be unable to move.
I read your post during a 'hormone storm', so let fire.

Might be the case where you are, but not the same for everyone. I’m in the NW. Snowing all night, stuck fast and frozen this morning. Local advice is stay home if you can until gritters have been out and conditions improve. There are public transport delays all over the place here. Why would anyone want to add to that if they don’t have to ?

Nice outdated views there.

Yep, I started doing 1 day a week at home over 20yrs ago, probably worked harder than an office day, since I had a 1-1.5hrs commute depending on which office I was in. Did get some sarky comments from colleagues in early days, I bet they weren’t sarky to themselves during the wfh lockdown months!!

My eldest has been working in professional roles since late 2020, for 2 major companies based in London and Hampshire - but still based with us in Cheshire. He does go into office regularly, but no lack of work ethic, his bosses in both companies have been extremely pleased with him.

Op, please don’t put yourself and others at risk unnecessarily.

She says she regularly works from home one day a week, so it sounds like there is some flexibility. I'm sure she knows whether her duties will allow her to do so.

Why don't the people who live there shovel it? It only becomes "impassable" if you let it!!

Following @AnglesMortes 's argument, perhaps it's better for people who can work from home to so do, and leave the roads and rails freer for those who cannot.

Not at all.

We are in Scotland, DH has a commute to work which takes him over a road which often gets blocked in bad weather. We have lived here 15 years and every winter he has had a couple of work from home days when it's been particularly bad. When the beast from the east hit about 6 or 7 years ago he couldn't get in for about a week.

Working from home in bad weather when you can has always been a thing, and a very sensible thing. If you have a day or two remote every day, where is the harm in saying that you are doing your remote working today rather than Thursday or Friday?

I'm shocked your workplace hasn't asked you to stay at home! Mine has, and does anytime there's any sort of weather - why would you ask your employees to come in during bad weather?! I'd think it would go without saying

When the beast from the east hit we were all out shovelling. But at the end of our cul de sac at the time we had two very elderly and frail women who were told to be inside, an elderly man with parkinson's, a heavily pregnant woman and multiple toddlers. So there were about 6 able bodied adults out of 10 houses. And there was SO much snow....

Well they’ve vanished into the ether !!

When I was younger, i remember walking in the snow from the bus stop to work.
Firstly, the bus almost crashed, and i had to get off a stop earlier due to the driver giving up.
Fell about 6 times and ended up getting to work an hour late soaking wet and covered in bruises. Why? Cos WFH didn't exist.

It wasn't necessary. I could do my job from home and have saved myself a lot of stress.

Totally not unreasonable especially if remote working exists in your company.

This would be the sensible option yes, but would apparently render you an indoor snowflake lacking the moral fibre and work ethic that is mysteriously conferred by battling the elements. When you could just put the kettle on and open your laptop, and voila, the world of work is magically at your fingertips !!