Working From Home Megathread

According to Richard Grogan the employee will supply photographs of the workspace using their phone. If a desk/chair needs to be provided, that will be the responsibility of the employer. But if the workspace is unsuitable for that desk/chair, then it’s back to the office for you my friend.

Don’t know, but he is pretty well versed in employment law.

You provide your employees with the tools they need so set it up safely.

Trusting your employees to do something, it’s not a wild idea.

Andrew, I’m not sure you have quite grasped yet that the legislation has not yet being enacted that grants a right to work from home. This is a developing situation where employees could return to the office, then told they shouldn’t. If someone cannot wfh, there is still nothing to stop and employer from requiring the employee to the return to the office. Currently wfh is guidance, not law. It will be the second have of next year before most employers know if wfh is just a temporary situation, or long term. So why you are so obstinate in your opinions about wfh requirements and rights is bizarre. Most people seem to like the current arrangements, but not everyone is yet certain of their employers policy nor what the legal requirements will be. So take a day off, you don’t have to be this way every day.

You haven't ran into domestic violence on a zoom meeting?

Sheltered life!

All right folks, I'm putting my foot down with a firm hand.

It's Christmas.

I don't want any further work talk until the 4th of January.

I don't care if you hate the office, hate working from home, or witnessed someone getting the sh**te knocked out of them during a powerpoint presentation on Microsoft teams.

Anymore work talk and I'm putting you on my list of enemies.

Merry Christmas to all the working people.

I don’t know what the world would do without you. You’re out there fighting every battle. It’s a true Christmas miracle.

You think it is karma to pass on Covid to your boss, possibly his family and trap them abroad because he goes to work in the office every day and you had to pop in? Let’s hope karma works both ways.

Covid is very inconvenient. If the guy thought he had to go into the office every day, and did nothing wrong when restrictions were lifted by getting people back to the office, that does not mean in any way shape or form that he deserves to be sick, nor would it be ironic.

The important word there is “advice”, the Government issued guidance, it is up to employers to decide. Your boss thought it necessary to go in, I’ve been at work every day, do I deserve to get Covid?

Your post reads like you would be happy if he tests positive when he’s about to come home, it would be “karma” for a bad deed. Nice.

Yes, we work in a medical/dental clinic. But that’s beside the point. I could close my clinic if I wanted to follow Government advice.

That is the point, it is up to employers to decide whether it is important or not, that is why the Government only issued guidance/advice and did not make wfh mandatory. Your boss decided it was necessary for himself to be there, you popped in, and seem to think him getting Covid would be karma for that.

The mandatory WFH that has been imposed on Andrew and many other public servants for the duration of the Covid emergency response.

I know several people who were allowed into the office for two hours to collect their laptop, and are still forbidden from going back unless a manager authorises a specific visit for a decision purpose.