___________________________________________________________________________________________A quick note from the author. This story idea came to me a while ago. I had been toying around with the concept ever since I heard of the "Working Naked Day" as a real world thing... I was going to wait until February, but I sort of fell into a story hole and couldn't stop writing until I finished. I figure that since it is one day per year, and this story starts in 2020, I should be able to get to chapter 6 by February 7th.
Feedback is always appreciated.
- Edith
2020 - Year of the Pandemic
Janice sprinted from her apartment. It was already 7:58 am, she was going to be late to work again. She slipped off her heels and carried them the rest of the way. Her boss, Adeline, had been on her about being at her desk by 8:00 every day. She only lived three blocks from the office but had always had trouble motivating herself to arrive early, or even on time.
She sprinted through the lobby and up the stairs. When she got to her desk, her heart sank. There was a sticky note on her monitor that read, “See me in my office, Adeline”.
Janice gathered herself and lifted her head a bit. Her instinct was to go in looking sullen, like a sick puppy to garner sympathy, but Adeline didn’t respond well to that nor to excuses.
Casually, she checked the time on her phone as she walked in. It read 8:01. She wasn’t THAT late. That revelation made her angry. She suddenly walked into his office with the vigor ready to pick a fight. 1 minute late? No friggin way was she going to get blasted for that.
“Close the door.” Adeline said as she stormed in. That caught her off guard, but she brushed it closed and turned back to her boss ready for whatever Adeline said, or so she thought.
“We’re about to announce a major change to the work environment. I need your help crafting the memo,” she told her smoothly.
“I’m just… what?” She said confused.
“You’ve heard about that bug that is going around China, right?” Adeline asked.
Of course, she had. Half of the company’s workforce was in China, it’s all anybody coming back from Asia wanted to talk about. “Yes.” She responded.
“Well, because we have so much traffic coming from Asia to the US, the corporate has decided to quarantine the entire company.” Adeline said.
“Quarantine? We have to stay here?” Janice wanted to know.
“No, no… just for the next few months. Everyone in the company will be required to work from home.” Adeline clarified.
A sudden jolt of excitement shot through Janice as she realized that she wouldn’t need to rush to the office anymore… She’d be at her desk without leaving the house. She wouldn’t have to get up and get ready for work each day, but could work however she wanted… even naked, it didn’t matter.
“Why are you blushing?” Adeline asked.
Janice touched her cheek. “I just… ran three blocks.” She said to cover her dirty mind.
Adeline nodded and subtly checked her watch. “Thanks for getting to work on time, today.”
Janice smiled. For the next thirty minutes, the two of them worked on the memo that would be sent to the office distribution list. They went through a few revisions, trying to balance not wanting to start a panic about some disease the company may or may not be infected with, and that this precaution was absolutely necessary to ensure that the workforce remained as safe as possible.
When the memo went out, the pushback was sudden and angry. People wanted to know how they were supposed to get their sales goals when all of their files were at the office. Managers wanted to know how their employees could be held accountable and employees wanted to know if their internet and coffee could be billed back to the company. Yes on the internet, no on the coffee.
The mood that day was getting worse and by lunchtime, none of the major questions had been answered by Adeline or the corporate overlords.
To lighten the mood, Janice announced that the company could finally participate in Working Naked Day. She clarified that it is an annual event on the first Friday of February where people can work naked if they want. She included the link to the website:
https://nationaltoday.com/working-naked-day/
The response was outright laughter throughout the office. A lot of “You first” or “I will if you do” from both the men and women. In the email, someone pointed out that it’s too bad HR was CC’d on this message. They would cancel that holiday for sure.
To everyone’s surprise, Kathy Sherman, the HR Business Partner answered back that, since the site seems legit, if nobody complained that HR would sanction the Holiday this year as a trial.
Janice responded to that message with, “Can I get that in writing?”
Technically, the email chain was in writing, but instead of responding with snark, she suddenly received a calendar event from HR that listed a new holiday for next Friday as “Working Naked Day.”
Janice about fell out of her chair. She immediately accepted the all-day event and responded with the words “I’m in!”
Laughter around the office continued the rest of the day, as the jokes about working naked next Friday, or as some took to calling it “Extra-casual Friday” kept the mood lightened.
Answers began rolling in to address the main concerns. Everyone would be provided a laptop and VPN access to the main servers. Security software that the IT department could use for remote assistance would be provided and webcams would be included so managers could check in on their employees.
The rest of the week was busy as new computers were deployed to anyone who didn’t already have a laptop. Everyone was trained on how to connect to the VPN and how to attend virtual meetings, which were being added to existing calendar appointments.
The following Monday, lockdown started. Janice was so excited that she got logged into the VPN at 7:55. Somehow, when she didn’t have to go to the office she had no trouble being motivated. The only thing she really missed from going to the office was the gossip she got from her friends Clara and Tiffany. Each of them were admins for the other managers at the office, and between the three of them they had the skinny on everything that went down at the office.
Adeline was the General Manager of the office, and for no other reason, Clara and Tiffany deferred to Janice as if her boss’s position somehow translated to more authority for her within the friend group. Janice didn’t see it that way, but she also wasn’t going to argue the point.
The lockdown went off with very few issues. People were able to get to their files and customer relations didn’t really see any hiccups in the transition. Managers had the ability to remotely turn on their employees webcams during business hours, though that information wasn’t spread beyond Janice and the three Managers.
They even set up a network printer and fax machine at Janice’s house so she could respond to government requests. For some reason the government still operated like it was 1988, technology wise.
Janice kept an open chat for herself, Clara, and Tiffany. All of the requests that went across the manager’s desk flowed through the chat. It was the one sense of normalcy that Janice felt she still had in the lockdown. As the week progressed, a few more group messages went out about Friday’s holiday.
In the chat, Janice asked if anyone was participating. Clara sent the embarrassed emoji while Tiffany offered a “It would be hilarious if we did it!”
“I’m in.” Janice wrote simply. To which the other girls sent simultaneous “LOL”
Each day there were several meetings that the girls had to attend. The webcam worked simply enough. It had a clasp that fastened to the top of the monitor and had a spring that pulled tension on the mechanism allowing you to point it anywhere and it would stay in place.
On Friday, though, there was only one meeting. It was the quarterly office all-hands meeting to go over the goals remaining for this quarter and set expectations for the next quarter. It was scheduled for 2 hours at the end of the day.
Janice was so excited she could barely sleep Thursday night. She had already tested her webcam angle and made sure that when she sat at her desk, it only showed her from the shoulder up. She just needed to make sure that she didn’t stand up during the meeting and everything would be fine.
She got up at 7:00 Friday morning and headed to the shower. She decided to wash her hair and put makeup on her face as if she were going out on a date. By the time she finished, she stood up straight and gave herself a once-over to make sure everything was in place. Staring at her nude body made her blush with excitement. She was really going to spend the day like this, no matter what.
She finished at 7:40 then went and fired up her laptop before heading to the kitchen to make coffee and a bagel. At 7:53, she sat at her desk and checked the webcam. At first, it didn’t turn on, but after a few seconds delay the image showed up on her screen. She smiled at the camera, it showed her face and bare shoulders. Slowly, she lowered the camera, revealing her cleavage. She smiled and blushed at the same time. She lowered the cam a bit more, revealing her breasts.
In a few minutes, her coworkers would be logging into the network. She would be interacting with everyone and nobody would know her secret.
Suddenly a meeting popped up. Adeline had sent her a meeting request with the subject of “Check-in”. Not that unusual on the quarterly meeting day. The only problem was that she didn’t see it on their yesterday. Reflectively, she clicked join meeting. Suddenly, the screen went blank for a second as her computer logged into the meeting. In a few seconds, she saw Adeline’s face staring back at her.
“Oh wow!” Adeline exclaimed. “You’re really doing the work naked thing today I guess.”
Janice realized that she was on camera and spotted the small screen in the upper right that showed her what the camera was displaying for Adeline. Janice saw her bare breasts fully exposed. In a flash, she moved the camera up to only show her face. “Sorry, I didn’t realize the camera was pointed so far down.” She lied. “I’m not in trouble, am I?”
“Well, a deal’s a deal.” Adeline laughed. “Just, when we do the all-hands today you may want to try and keep the camera on your face.”
Janice laughed nervously. She was teasing herself… she really didn’t expect to expose her tits to her boss like that.
“Well, let’s get started.” Adeline said. “Can we go over the quarterly numbers?”
That was the spreadsheet that she went over with Adeline to prep her for the Manager's meeting later this morning. Adeline would share her screen and Janice would read the numbers to fill out the form.
Unfortunately, it was not possible for her to have the spreadsheet on her screen and see Adeline’s screen at the same time.
“Yes.” Janice said. “Hold on, I printed it out last night.”
Unthinkingly, Janice got up and walked across the room. She plucked the pages off the printer and counted to make sure they were all there. It suddenly occurred to her that she had just walked across the room in full view of the webcam. Janice froze for a second. She heard Adeline ask, “Is everything okay?”
She turned her head and called back, “There might be a problem with the printout. Hold on.”
“No problem, stay there. I’ll send you another one.” Adeline said calmly.
Janice felt her face go flush. She was still facing away from her, but Adeline was now staring at her standing there in the nude. Suddenly, she heard the printer start-up. After a few seconds, the first page fed out.
While she stood there watching the pages print out, the realization of how long she had secretly been planning this flashed through her head. Well, maybe the word planning is too strong. More like, fantasizing about it.
It started back at University. She was with a group of girls from her sorority who were dared to streak across the campus and back. At first, she was terrified that she’d get caught. But once they were spotted, instead of being yelled at as being sluts, the people just cheered for them to keep going. She must have been seen by over 50 people, both guys and girls.
She was so excited by the experience, she tried organizing another dare to attend class in the nude. Nobody took her up on it, and worse, she was told that someone had done that a few years back and got expelled. That didn’t stop her from at least fantasizing about it. Once she had left school, the fantasy changed to working naked. She even would regularly look up some porn videos of girls or guys doing just that. That was how she stumbled upon the Working Naked Day website in the first place.
Now, she was finally living out her fantasy. However, that second part, about getting expelled, or in this case fired… caused her to fear. She did not want to lose her job… especially for THAT.
Panicking, she began to scramble for an excuse to get off camera while this 40-page document printed out. “This is going to take a minute. I’ll go get a cup of coffee.” She said.
“Good idea,” Adeline said.
As she turned to walk toward the kitchen Adeline offered, “I think I saw your cup on your desk.”
Janice stopped dead in her tracks… she stood facing at a 90-degree angle to the camera, with her entire body exposed on one side. As exciting as it was to be standing nude in front of her boss, she had this horrible feeling that this was going to get her fired if she pushed it too far. So she raised the pages up to her chest and walked strategically to her desk, making an effort to walk diagonally across the room and then when she was halfway there, switching directions so there was only a moment when her pubic hair was fully exposed to her boss.
Carefully, she snatched the cup off the desk and went to the kitchen to refill it. On her return, she held the cup low, so every bit was covered as she made her way back to the desk. She slid back into her seat feeling satisfied with what she had just managed.
Adeline stared at her expectantly. “Uh, what were we doing?” Janice asked.
“The printer.” She reminded. Janice’s face flashed red again. Of course, she had to get the pages from the printer.
“I think I can manage with these.” She said, lifting the current pages up to the camera to emphasize that she had already had a printed copy.
“You said those were incorrect…” Adeline started and then injected, “It doesn’t matter… get the ones I sent you, I updated them last night so they’ll be more accurate.”
Janice briefly abandoned her modesty and walked back across the room to pick up the new stack of pages from the desk. Again, she did her best to keep her breasts covered, but gave up on the pretense and just cupped her pussy as she made her way back to the desk. She suddenly realized that she was dripping wet. Buried under the fear of being fired, Janice was extremely horny. She’d have to take care of that after the call.
Once she sat down, she took a second to wipe the juices off of her left hand before declaring that she was ready. Adeline’s screen flicked over to the form he needed for the manager’s meeting. She began going through the columns of data, while Adeline filled in the details. It was all of the customer reporting data. Orders made. Orders Filled. Accounts Receivable. Each was broken into department and sales person.
It was a busy quarter, with new sales piled onto existing projections. Whatever was happening with this coronavirus that was coming out of China, it hadn’t slowed down the expectations of their customers. If anything, people were suddenly stocking up.
They were about halfway through the data when Adeline swore, “Well shit.”
“What’s wrong?” Janice wanted to know. Subconsciously, she checked her camera to make sure it hadn’t slipped down or something. It had not.
“We don’t have time… Okay, just stay on for the manager’s meeting. I’ll have you go through the rest from the spreadsheet.” He told her.
“But it…” She began, but it was too late. She saw another camera pop into the window. Greg, the director of the western sales district, who was also Tiffany’s boss, had just joined the meeting. She saw his eyes bulge as he noticed her state. Before he could mention it, Clay, the director of the eastern sales district, and also Clara’s boss, had joined.
Clay didn’t’ initially notice anything, and before Greg could point it out; Adeline said, “Let’s get started. Lots of things to go through. Janice and I didn’t have time to finish filling in the form, so she’ll just go through the raw data herself.”
As much as it would have been a hoot for her to suddenly let the camera drop for a second like she did earlier, she really was afraid she’d lose her job. So instead, she raised the pages in front of her like before. Only now, with the camera angled as it was, nobody in the meeting could see anything below her neck. She was pretty sure that Clay had not even noticed in the first place. Plus, since Adeline didn’t say anything about it, Greg just ignored it as well.
They went through the entire meeting with her nudity being obscured by the pages. As she began reading, she found that she could manage the pages with her right hand, dropping them one by one as she finished the contents. This freed her left hand to get up to mischief. At first, she began playing with her left nipple. Then she teased the right nipple because it was getting jealous. Finally, she made her way downstairs and slowly began rubbing her clam. She tried to time her orgasm with Adeline and the two men talking about the data between sections.
When she had finished reading through the data, they moved on to other subjects. Once Janice was no longer needed, she asked if she could drop out of the call. Adeline gave her a knowing smile and said “Go ahead.”
Once the camera was off, Janice breathed a long sigh. She found that she had been panting and her chair was soaked. She would need to get a towel to sit on if she was going to last the rest of the day.
After Janice had cleaned herself up and draped a towel over the seat of the chair, she resumed work. Twice more she stopped and masturbated to the thought of herself standing nude in front of Adeline. This time, in her mind she didn’t bother hiding herself. This time, in her mind, Greg and Clay were there too, watching her strut around naked.
She took a break for lunch and then finished answering the emails from earlier when she was busy pleasuring herself.
When the incoming video call from Clara popped onto her screen, she hesitated before answering it. Clara’s image appeared on her screen at the same time hers appeared on Clara’s. Janice laughed as the other woman’s eyes bugged out of her head. “Oh! That is hilarious!” Clara declared. “You are really pretending to be naked today!”
“Actually…” Janice began but Clara cut her off with, “I’m adding Tiffany. We all have to do this for the all-hands meeting. Those guys are gonna lose their shit!”
Within a couple of minutes, Clara and Tiffany were on the call discussing how best to fake being naked. They decided to take their tops off and pull the bra straps to the side. They positioned the camera the same as Janice and tested to see how much range of motion they were going to get before their bra showed.
“You should try actually going naked if the bra is too hard to control.” Janice offered. That was met with staunch laughter by both of them, to which Janice joined in.
Once they were settled with the position of their bras, Tiffany said, “This is going to be fun.” Clara added that she thought the situation was hilarious. After a few minutes, they dropped the call to prepare for the all-hands.
Janice went to her bedroom to retrieve the slender rod that she used when she was feeling lonely. She had a better one that vibrated, but she was afraid of the noise. She had just sat down when the meeting software popped up and her face appeared on the monitor. At least this time she didn’t have the camera pointed at her naked body when it suddenly popped on the screen.
Clara and Tiffany were already in the meeting, along with a few of the guys from the eastern district. Nobody noticed the three girls had their shoulders bare. Or, if they noticed, they didn’t say anything.
One by one, each person’s face appeared on the screen. Finally, Adeline, Clay, and Greg all showed up at the end. Before Adeline could start the meeting, Clay asked astonished, “Are you naked or something, Clara?”
The three girls laughed and he added, “Tiffany… Janice?”
Suddenly, there were cheers from the rest of the group. It didn’t subside until Adeline said, “Calm down everyone. Janice? Do you want to sh…”
As he was speaking, a quick panic shot through Janice’s brain. She cut him off saying, “I, um… Well, as you all know, today is Working Naked Day. So the three of us decided that this might be our only year we get to participate.”
Clay was poleaxed. “Clara, are you really naked?”
She giggled, which prompted the other two to chime in. Greg was almost as flabbergasted. He had some warning, having seen Janice earlier. Clay had clearly not noticed in the earlier meeting, and now he was shocked.
Adeline said, “Okay, we’ve all seen them. Let’s get back to the meeting.”
With that, the main part of the screen flicked over to a PowerPoint presentation and all of the camera became little tiny squares along the edges. They had to be tiny to accommodate all thirty attendees.
Adeline did the introduction and asked everyone to mute their mics to cut out the background noise. Janice happily complied, as she didn’t want anyone to hear her moaning.
In the next few slides, Clay went over the last quarter's sales for his district. Janice already had gone through this information earlier, so she blocked it out and just focused on the fact that she was now appearing nude in front of her colleagues.
Aside from Tiffany and Clara, there were only two other women at the meeting. Both of them were in sales, and Janice didn’t know them particularly well. Reaching down between her legs, she found that she was already quite wet.
Janice pressed the slender rod up against her labia and began to gently massage the exterior. As Clay continued talking, his deep baritone voice echoed in her head. She imagined the faces of her colleagues if they knew what she was doing. She wanted to lean back and howl, but that would have left her fully exposed to the rest of the group.
She watched herself in the camera to see if she was doing anything noticeable. She was keeping her shoulders still and doing all of the work with her wrist. Nobody could tell what was happening. Then she began to wonder how much of herself she could get away with revealing.
Her hand was still going frantically, moving the little rod in and out of her pussy. She could feel an orgasm starting, but when it got close, Clay would change slides and distract her. It was a big tease.
Slowly, her eyes fixed on the image of herself in the tiny box, Janice began sliding her chair back. Inch by inch, she moved further away, revealing more of her naked body. The entire time, her masturbation was getting into a methodical rhythm. In her mind, she was fully exposed, masturbating in front of everyone. In reality, she had only moved back three inches, revealing just a bit of cleavage.
The meeting continued on and Greg began going through his slides. More of the same. Nobody seemed to be paying any attention to Janice or the other two women. Janice decided to take advantage of that, and made a deliberate chair adjustment. Her eyes fixated on her image in the little window, she half-stood and pulled the chair in closer. This sent her bare breasts onto the screen for half a second.
Nobody said anything. Had then even noticed? She wanted to know… just then, she realized that aside from Greg, everyone’s mic was muted. She suppressed a smile. Maybe they HAD seen.
The exhilaration and fear returned. Janice returned to paying attention as Greg finished his part of the presentation. Janice continued staring at the tiny box with her image in it. She continued sliding the seat back, showing more and more cleavage. She stopped just short of revealing the areola.
The final slide was titled, “Questions?”
Adeline led the debrief as they went around the room, Adeline asking each person in turn to repeat their quarterly goal back to clarify that they understood their requirements. The slide had now disappeared, replaced at first by Adeline’s camera feed. As the salespeople each checked in, their image would take the large center field.
As administrative assistants, neither Janice, Clara nor Tiffany had any requirements. It caught Janice off-guard when Adeline unmuted her mic and said, “Janice, can you read back everyone’s goal for final clarification?”
“I… Yes, Adeline.” She said. As soon as she spoke, her video feed suddenly popped into the center of the screen, enlarging her image for everyone in the meeting. Janice’s eyes widened at how much cleavage she was showing.
Janice fumbled through the pages on her desk. “If you need, I can resend you the sheet to your printer.” Adeline suggested.
Janice glanced back at the printer twenty steps behind her. She was nowhere nearly prepared to take that walk in front of everyone. “No.” She said curtly. “it’s… here.” She was relieved when she got to the page labeled ‘Summary’.
Nervously, Janice read through the list of each salesperson’s quarterly goals, the whole while keeping an eye on how much of her chest was being revealed to her colleagues. When she got to the end of the list, she said, “Well, that’s it. Looking back at Adeline she asked. Is there anything else?”
“Thank you, Janice. Thanks everyone for attending.” As Adeline spoke, his image replaced hers as the main feature. Once the meeting ended, Janice shut down her computer and collapsed onto her sofa. She would spend the next few days reveling in how she felt being naked like that in front of everyone… then she began planning for next year.