"Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward" wrote in message
ps.com...
Thank you everyone for your responses. I found the discussion
extremely useful. I still haven't had that conversation with my
supervisor, but thought I should give you some more context: I work in
IT here in the Boston area, and my company has been very accomodating
to me in the past year or so, as I've had two babies in quick
succession. They allowed me to work from home virtually the entire
year and have not sent me on any overnight trips at all, even though
we generally do travel to client meetings as needed - which, for me,
has been once or twice every three months.

We are expected to work overtime as needed, without additional
compensation. Because the work comes in bursts at times, we do have
short stretches when we don't necessarily need to put in our full
hours.

To be fair, we get 12-13 days of company holidays a year, plus 5 weeks
of personal time off (PTO), which includes vacation and sick time.
The PTO of course is pro-rated depending on whether one is p/t or f/t.


It sounds like you've got a honey of a deal and a nice company to work for.
From the perspective of what you've shared things sound much more workable,
in that they are more likely to be reasonable in expectations and
compensation than other companies I know of. I hope your trip goes well and
you continue to enjoy a smooth readjustment to the working world.

-Aula