Working moms or those in HR come in por favor

KeyRyn320

Once my short-term disability is up in March, I would like to work from home three days a week until LO is a little older and daycare is cheaper What is the best and most professional way to ask for the time off? I will be going to HR soon to discuss my maternity leave and plan to ask them while I'm there.

midnight*sun

If you like I can email you my proposal. It includes a modified works schedule for the first month that I'm back which you can just edit for your own desired schedule.

pmanolides

If you have a good relationship with your boss and you think this person would would support the idea, I'd also tell him/her about it before you talk to HR since (s)he may have a lot of influence on the decision.

MichelleL1118

Be prepared to discuss your child care plans while you're working from home.  Most companies don't feel you can adequately do your job from home while providing full-time care to an infant, and expect to see that you have some arrangement in place (a nanny/babysitter there during your "work hours" to care for LO so you can focus on work) before considering a work-from-home arrangement for new moms as well.  It would still be a lot cheaper than daycare if you could find a college kid to work a few hours each of those days so you'd have some dedicated work time without interruption.

KeyRyn320

Thanks ladies for all your help!