Hi, my name is SLesleyG! In discussions with my employer about working from home permanently

SLesleyG

I am in the process of discussions with my employer about whether I can work from home permanently.
I have about 23 diagnosed conditions and having more tests at the moment.
I am registered disabled, and have been working from home for the last 18 months due to the pandemic.
This has worked very well but my boss would like me back in the office. I am an Accounts Manager.

It seems his concern is when my colleague is on holiday that I cant go into the office to cover some of his work, although it has been covered for the last 18 months.

I have a 90 minute round trip to work on top of the days work which is physically impossible due to the deterioration of my health.

Thank you for listening.

janer1967

Hi and welcome to the community 

Have you made the request as a reasonable adjustments under the equality act 
.another suggestion would be to get a referral to oh for recommendations on reasonable adjustments 
I hope you manage to come to a compromise 

SLesleyG

Thank you. 
I have a meeting tomorrow with my boss and a HR consultant  I have also spoken to my GP who is backing me. 

janer1967

OK hope meeting goes well 

If you have any further questions just ask I am a  ex hr manager so have some knowledge about the subject 

foryoureyesonly

hello just joined today myself

Ross_Alumni

Hello @SLesleyG

Welcome to the community, I hope you are able to get a successful outcome with this and work from home