Your occupation?

[Golden Phoenix]

And yes, I can show the financial advantages of things like nice furniture, multiple screens/PCs per tech, advanced diagnostic software, paid industry cert training, high tech salaries etc.

Can you come into my work and show my boss the financial advantages of letting me sit on my ass all day and do nothing

[Geminii]

Possibly.

I'd bet my fee that I'd be able to make the incoming workload lighter and more consistent, for starters. Probably be able to give you more control over future crises, too.

One point, though - even though I've convinced a number of my own bosses (back before I was doing this freelance) to let me sit around all day doing next to nothing, it gets to be bloody boring after the first couple of weeks. Even surfing the net all day isn't the thrill it might first seem. There's always the nagging feeling that at any minute the boss (or the boss's boss) is going to ask "So what have you been doing all day?", and you won't have an answer.

Plus you get a kind of disconnect with your co-workers - you don't really have the same things to moan about over lunch or at the water cooler. It just doesn't work out well in the long run.

It is nice to have a couple of minutes to yourself here and there between jobs throughout the day, though, and I can fairly easily justify that on a capacity/flexibility basis.