Trying to convince your company to  let you telecommute, but having a hard time because you work for a small company that hasn’t figured out the technical details yet?

Small businesses don’t have the army of IT folks to figure out how to create a VPN (Virtual Private Network) and support a remote access software solution. These details can be complicated and need to be done right - to protect the company from potential security threats. So it may be easier for your company to just say ‘no’ than to do the extra work. It’s not that they don’t want to support your work/life balance, or the environment, or save their own money by having you work from home. It’s just that it’s too complicated.

But if you read my last blog post, I found an article that describes some alternatives to make the external access a bit easier. So try taking this article to your head of IT and see if he can use the information to come up with a solution. Once you get past that hurdle, perhaps your boss will be more open to the telecommuting conversation.

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