
The remote-days proposal, in one page
A proposal that argues for remote work loses. Write the coverage guarantee instead, with an override, a review date and a stated way to end it.
Hybrid arrangements, working from another state, and postings that only claim to be remote.

A proposal that argues for remote work loses. Write the coverage guarantee instead, with an override, a review date and a stated way to end it.

The objection is rarely about trust. It is payroll registration, workers' comp and unemployment insurance, and it comes with a lead time.

The word remote is a recruiting term, not a fact about the job. The real arrangement is three paragraphs lower, written in language that avoids the word.

The expensive things people buy first are not what change a working day. Heights, light, sound and a second surface do, and three of the four are free.

A team's hybrid schedule collapses when the office day stops being worth the drive. That is a coverage problem, and tightening the rule makes it worse.

A green dot measures your mouse. What a manager can actually repeat about you is built from writing that travels, and that takes one note a week.