Ok I'm a transcriptionist for my city's law enforcement agency. I type up victim/witness/suspect statements for detectives. I work in what is called the City County Building in downtown Indy. I would love more than anything to work from home for a number of reasons. I've never asked but I'm sure the reason we can't work from home is for security reasons. But a lot of people do medical transcription from home, so why not legal transcription? And actually the enviornment I am forced to work in makes it difficult for me to work.
SO BASICALLY WHO DO I ASK IF I CAN WORK FROM HOME...HR...WHO?
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It’s usually not so much safety or security as it has to do with oversight. Mistakes caught in the office can be corrected much more quickly than an accumulation of mistakes from home. And, of course, many people are simply resistant to any change from the normal status quo.
Bascially, to work from home, all you need is the trust of your supervisor. If he has good reason to believe that your work will be the same great quality that it’s been at work, and there has never been a need to correct your work, he may be perfectly agreeable to you working from home.
Of course, he may still be required to get approval from HIS superiors, and it depends simply on how much he can convince them. They may give excuses why not, and they might be valid. Or not. Doesn’t matter, as they’re still just excuses and the bottom line is no permission. Since you have no legal right to work from home, disproving the excuses is meaningless.
It takes a lot of self-discipline to work from home, and even hard working people fall behind in that discipline. So you have to be a really mean boss in order to be ‘your own boss’, if you’re prepared for that.
Talk with your immediate supervisor, and if he’s disinterested, then go to his supervisor to follow up on it (if the system allows it).
Hmm…do you work for “corporate” or a “city’s law enforcement agency”?
Anyway, your best bet is to speak with your supervisor.
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