Not permitted to be productive at home

["Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

For a couple of reasons (not least of which is my need to be within a few 
feet of a washroom, but that's probably Too Much Information), I e-mailed 
work this morning to say I would be working at home and people could send me 
stuff to work on. Since my new boss is at a conference, along with most of 
my teammates, I paged him to let him know. His response was to take a sick 
day instead: "[We] have been fairly strict with the group when it comes to 
working from home... [it must be] pre approved..."

This WAS announced as policy late last year, but it was to prevent people 
from slacking off. Management doesn't recognise that the environment itself 
(open cubicles backing on common walkways, phone and other conversations, ad 
hoc meetings behind one's chair, co-workers pulling up to have a chat, and 
so on) can reduce productivity considerably, but we have all adjusted fairly 
well.

Now, nothing is stopping me from working a regular shift and being 
productive here at home, and I can always find something to work on wherever 
I am, but department policy is actually preventing me from logging hours to 
a project or regular task because of my location. So now I have to deplete 
my bank of sick days.

Does anyone else have a company policy that's AGAINST infrequent 
telecommuting?

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