I am blessed with a company that trusts its employees; the policy seems to be that we are hired to exercise good judgement and if they didn't expect we could do so, they wouldn't have hired us. This makes life a great deal easier on personnel and in exchange we are always ready to turn out for crunch situations. Being treated like adults, we tend to respond like responsible adults. The time I spend on the Cat is more than compensated for by value delivered and time spent on work while at home. I think it would be hard to have and live in a company where management had to consume its time designing and enforcing policy as though for juveniles. IMHO it is not the nature of the employment contract to get into that kind of tangle on either side -- but I appreciate I am lucky in this regard.

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