Offsite access to school's MIS for staff - reimbuse costs?

[enjay]

Would they try to claim for carpets, chairs, tables, light bulbs as well as utility bills if they did their marking at home?

 

Yes, on the understanding that they are being provided purely for the purposes of school work, and therefore no-one else must be in the room to benefit from the glow of the light bulb...

[grumpy_git]

Yes, on the understanding that they are being provided purely for the purposes of school work, and therefore no-one else must be in the room to benefit from the glow of the light bulb...

 

Which demonstrates how petty it is!

 

I've done work from home - for the sole reason that rather than staying an extra half hour, I'd prefer to go home, have tea, put my feet up for a couple of hours - and then log on and do some paperwork, deal with email, set a machine rebuilding remotely etc. I'd not dream of claiming expenses for it - if I wanted to I could easily do it from school, but I make the decision not to as it's easier for me.

 

Plus it would be silly - if a teacher pays £X (fixed) per month for internet access, how can you define the cost of what they spend to access school remotely? You'd no doubt end up subsidising their personal use...

[enjay]

Plus it would be silly - if a teacher pays £X (fixed) per month for internet access, how can you define the cost of what they spend to access school remotely? You'd no doubt end up subsidising their personal use...

 

Isn't it the case that you can get 10% personal use for free, and it then becomes a taxable benefit?

 

Irrelevant in this instance, however, as if they have a PC and Internet connection at home anyway, then why should the school pay anything at all towards that? You could only seriously ask the school to pay if a) it is something which you wouldn't have otherwise, or b) it actually results in extra expenditure. The broadband bill would be the same with or without the business use, as would the cost of the PC; I would argue that users with PCs at home anyway could ask for nothing more than the electricity (and of course even then only if the school REQUIRES the work to be done from home).

[mpe]

Plus it would be silly - if a teacher pays £X (fixed) per month for internet access, how can you define the cost of what they spend to access school remotely? You'd no doubt end up subsidising their personal use...

Considering what some teachers get up to with their school issued laptops this already appears to happen quite often anyway.

[Polski]

I have in the past worked from home, purely because I needed to try something out on my own system first. While at home I threw the laundry in and hung it out to dry later.

 

Plus I saved on the commute to work.

 

The point being: -

 

"You have remote access, use it if you wish. If you want to bill us for it, call the caretaker and he will unlock your classroom / office for you!"

 

[button_ripple]

Unless you are forcing them to use the home access, it is their choice to access it from home. For example, If a school is providing a bus service for free which will collect staff, but a member of staff chooses to drive to school then they can't claim petrol.

 

You have provided yet another means of access to a school system, use of it through that access method is up to them. We had something similar, teachers thinking they could claim consumable costs for their ink at home, because we have restrictions here. The school provides printers, they choose not to use them. They can come to us if they have a big job to be printed.