Can I request to work from home in the school holidays?

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I work part time 5 days a week as a secretary/PA - fits in perfectly around school hours. I'm very lucky so I don't want to ask for to much!

I work in an office from my laptop and 90% of my work is via email.

I have 1 DC in nursery and 2 in school so when the 6 weeks holidays start I will be paying nursery fees + childrens clubs for 2 DC, it is as expected soo much money.

I have been back to work for a year and we did the holidays last year, lots of £££'s & most of my holiday leave taken to help keep the cost down (shared with DH so no family time togeather) I did take this into consideration when going back to work but have had an idea of maybe avoiding paying out so much and maybe even having a few days togeather as a family this year!

I want to ask (my new, not even met him yet) boss to allow me to work from home 2 set days a week, DC1 in nursery still and older children able to fend for themselves playing with friends, amusing themselves for my 5 hours working from home time.

All my normal duties would be achieved on these days and the benifit to having my laptop at home would be that I would still be available after my finish time if needed (at no extra wage)

I would still be in the office 3 days a week so any face to face work can be done on these days, I would benifit in getting more work done because people can't "lets check it over with Object" "lets see what Object thinks" They can email me instead of spending 10 minutes explaining simple questions

What do you think? Am I being too greedy, it really would help me out with childcare, it would be a bonus as it isnt something I desperatly need to do iyswim?

Sorry - but wouldn't you be looking after the children rather than doing your job? I wouldn't agree to this

Leaving aside the childcare issue (which does seem to be a big one):

Are you sure your job can be done effectively at home? I have a PA and it would be a total PITA for me if she worked from home. I often need to give her pieces of paper - handwritten notes to be typed, filing to be done, letters with contact details on etc. If she worked at home I would have to pdf all that to her (which would add a lot ot my own workload) and she would have to print it out which would slow her down.

You say that any face to face work can be done on the 3 days you are in the office - but what if your boss needs it doing on the other 2 days?

Go for it and just ask. I work full time but arranged to work a couple of days a week from home during the school hol. The worst that can happen is that your boss will say no. If you have access to a phone and your e mail network at home then what difference does it make?