initiated by bhukku on April 04, 2007 (http://infotech.indiatimes.com/Tech_News/News/ITs_time_to_work_from_home/articleshow/482160.cms)
Employees, who are adjudged sincere and hardworking, are allowed to work from home. Some companies are even allowing people who have moved out of the city due to personal reasons to continue to work from home.
Though work from home is still mainly availed of by women employees, it will not be long before the policy becomes more holistic and include men who want to shoulder responsibilities at home would adopt it, he says.
Now a days in most of the IT companies employees are allowed to work from home.
The companies will provide them with a laptop and internet connection and they are free to work from home......The main IDEA is to increase the productivity of the company along with the Employee satisfaction.
if you are not able to go to the office. Rather than taking leave u can work from home which will benefit yoy as well as your company..but it all depends on the company norms