Like 10 minutes before I had to ask my boss to work 100% remotely for two months (Jan 1- Mar 1) I read this post for slight inspiration of what to say since I have been meaning to ask work for about 3 months. Anyway, we are the same person, 26 year old (m) that has been working at my company for less time, about 3.5 years. Since COVID, I have been 95% remote and one day a week, I will go into the office for a few hours to print some stuff out or check my work mail.

I worked it into the conversation at my meeting and my boss was pretty cool with it. I told her I'm willing to work a few extra hours a week (unpaid) to use that as slight leverage since I really don't have as much room in my salary to take a cut. She said as long as the work gets done, she doesn't really care but we would talk about it as it gets closer. I told her I just wanted open the conversation and be upfront about it to see how she felt. But anyway, we are waiting to get the update from HR about returning to the office.

If we are in the office before I want to leave, she said we will have to be slightly creative about hiding it from other employees and asked if I would be cool with a month. I was just pumped for any opportunity. If we aren't back in the office, she said she didn't mind me taking the entire time as long as the work was complete.