How should a boss respond if one of their employees asks to WORK from HOME permanently? If you have scrolled LinkedIn at all lately, you will know the answer is simple.
The platform has been peppered with a viral copy paste prompt by people engagement farming. It goes like this:
“An employee asked me if he can WORK from HOME permanently. Here is what I told him.” A simple site search for these phrases yields hundreds of posts. This is the only text that LinkedIn allows users to see as a preview of the post. But below the “see more” button, posts vary substantially. Some offer apparently genuine advice encouraging managers to allow their employees to work from home, while others offer no advice and have instead turned the template into a meme. One post now encourages the employee who asked to permanently work from home to “Be a Caterpillar. Eat a lot. Sleep a lot. Wake up beautiful.” This is the best advice to date that has been shared on LinkedIn.
The first instance of this post appears to have been shared around four months ago by Brigette Hyacinth, a self-described consultant and keynote speaker on leadership, human resources and AI. Her version states that the employee who asked to “WORK from HOME permanently” saved 3 hours on his commute, and that “Happy employee = greater productivity.”