Just remember you have the legal right to request to work from home but there is nothing, in the legal sense, saying that the employer has to grant you shit!
> “Companies are looking for guidelines on what’s reasonable to say to requests for remote or flexible working.”
In other words, “So…exactly how do we phrase our ‘no’ in a way that doesn’t annoy the WRC?”
It’s essential to have 5 anchor days every week in the office, ya know, so you feel part of the *Family*
It’d be some job to rally a car from home.
Here’s hoping they actually took feedback from the public (the campaign were you could write to them and give your opinion) seriously and aren’t just going to release a waste of paper.
It’s not going to happen, but it’d be amazing if they came out with:
If the employee has X number of years service, good performance review, and more importantly, is already WFH a certain number of days a week and theres no reason to be in the office then they shouldn’t be refused.
Sincerely, a lad that has to work in the office 2 days a week even though my entire team is based in the US 😢
The WRC provides judgement and guidelines based on legislation and natural justice arising from a companies own policies and procedures.
The guidance will be clarification on the process through which an employer must consider WFH eligibility. Essentially a checklist of things an employer must consider and give a reasonable answer to how they considered before they tell you “no, 4 days in the office”.
Anyone expecting some mammoth revelation or anyone who wasted their time writing in is going to be sorely disappointed.
This seems like it will be for the benefit of employers rather than any strengthening of workers rights.
The article thumbnail shows the real negative attitude to wfh / remote work. It’s just people messing around and working from their kitchen. Sure even has a bit of cooking going on in the background.
People who are serious about wfh / remote long term should (and often do) have a dedicated space they don’t just pop the laptop anywhere and take a call.
Damn thought this was regarding World Rally Championship
Do we need guidelines. Looking at other companies, a big issue seems to be to be overly rigid.
For the love of God, won’t somebody please think of the commercial real estate value!
I feel like companies are mad to get away from the WFH model because of real estate prices, under the guise that “we do our best work together”
Being someone who works in tech I can say this is utter bullshit.. people in my office sit with their headphones on and it’s more frustrating than anything to commute.
You’d also think this would be better endorsed due to the fact that traffic and traffic accidents in general are way up again .. it’s idiocy
If most companies don’t offer wfh anymore and a few do then all the talent goes to the few that do.
Feel like the cat is out of the bag on this one and now that it’s an option it can’t be stifled. In my profession anyways.
Gov- Lets reduce our emissions. I know, lets bring back office work and let people sit in traffic for hours!
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Just remember you have the legal right to request to work from home but there is nothing, in the legal sense, saying that the employer has to grant you shit!
> “Companies are looking for guidelines on what’s reasonable to say to requests for remote or flexible working.”
In other words, “So…exactly how do we phrase our ‘no’ in a way that doesn’t annoy the WRC?”
It’s essential to have 5 anchor days every week in the office, ya know, so you feel part of the *Family*
It’d be some job to rally a car from home.
Here’s hoping they actually took feedback from the public (the campaign were you could write to them and give your opinion) seriously and aren’t just going to release a waste of paper.
It’s not going to happen, but it’d be amazing if they came out with:
If the employee has X number of years service, good performance review, and more importantly, is already WFH a certain number of days a week and theres no reason to be in the office then they shouldn’t be refused.
Sincerely, a lad that has to work in the office 2 days a week even though my entire team is based in the US 😢
The WRC provides judgement and guidelines based on legislation and natural justice arising from a companies own policies and procedures.
The guidance will be clarification on the process through which an employer must consider WFH eligibility. Essentially a checklist of things an employer must consider and give a reasonable answer to how they considered before they tell you “no, 4 days in the office”.
Anyone expecting some mammoth revelation or anyone who wasted their time writing in is going to be sorely disappointed.
This seems like it will be for the benefit of employers rather than any strengthening of workers rights.
The article thumbnail shows the real negative attitude to wfh / remote work. It’s just people messing around and working from their kitchen. Sure even has a bit of cooking going on in the background.
People who are serious about wfh / remote long term should (and often do) have a dedicated space they don’t just pop the laptop anywhere and take a call.
Damn thought this was regarding World Rally Championship
Do we need guidelines. Looking at other companies, a big issue seems to be to be overly rigid.
For the love of God, won’t somebody please think of the commercial real estate value!
I feel like companies are mad to get away from the WFH model because of real estate prices, under the guise that “we do our best work together”
Being someone who works in tech I can say this is utter bullshit.. people in my office sit with their headphones on and it’s more frustrating than anything to commute.
You’d also think this would be better endorsed due to the fact that traffic and traffic accidents in general are way up again .. it’s idiocy
If most companies don’t offer wfh anymore and a few do then all the talent goes to the few that do.
Feel like the cat is out of the bag on this one and now that it’s an option it can’t be stifled. In my profession anyways.
Gov- Lets reduce our emissions. I know, lets bring back office work and let people sit in traffic for hours!