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

SLesleyG
SLesleyG Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener
edited July 2021 in Work
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.

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  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    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
    SLesleyG Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener
    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
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    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
    foryoureyesonly Online Community Member Posts: 21 Connected
    hello just joined today myself
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Hello @SLesleyG

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

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