Want more holidays? Is office life holding you back? If you’re willing to take a couple of risks, you might be able to keep that beach tan for longer than a week. Fortune favours the brave, we say. We’re not guaranteeing the following steps will work for you, but you should give them a ruddy good go.
1. Work more effectively
Cut out distractions and interruptions, and then concentrate on the parts of your job where you’re most successful. It’s better to get great results out of a few pots, then to be stirring a hundred uselessly.
2. Become indispensable
The first step should be impressing your employers, so see if you can get them to invest in you further and give you extra training.
3. Take a couple of sick days and work from home
Make sure you pull out all the stops so that your output is through the roof on these days. If you need your office computer, use a remote access programme.
4. Talk to your boss about how much better you worked
Prepare a graph to underline your points about how great the home-working experience was. Tell them it’s because there are too many distractions in the office.
5. Ask for a trial period of two home days per week
Working from home may seem a tall order, so keeping shoving the stats in their faces. “The proof’s in the pudding, Johnson!” (You don’t have to call your boss Johnson if you don’t want to).
6. Home days good, office days bad.
Ensure home days are high performance, and lower your performance on office days. It’s cheeky, but do you want more holidays or what?
7. Negotiate all your time to be from home.
After a month or two, prepare a new graph of how much an improvement home working is and demand you spend all your time there. Bang your fist on the table! Threaten to quit! If you’ve concentrated on step 1 and 2 correctly, they’ll have no choice.
8. Take laptop on holiday.
Work on a beach, FOREVER. You’re welcome.
