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this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2023
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My company is attempting to try this bullshit and I'm curious what the HR will say to me when I tell them that's discriminatory.
Edit: btw I'm not customer facing or a laborer unlike the handful of unimaginative comments assume the article's talking about. This is an issue in all fields that can be remote. Sadly, an issue enough now that there's at least one article about it. Wfh shouldn't be something only egos get. If your job can be done from home, it should be.
I get what you're saying - from the article and your comment I couldn't name the group of people that it discrimates against though.
Perhaps that's a different legal blah blah but where I'm from you can only discrimate against a protected group of people (race, religion, disability, gender are the ones I am aware of).
Discrimination would be a tough sell - and a "you're creating a divide" would likely be met with a "well discuss that with your supervisor, this is a decision based on individual and team circumstances" - which leads then to the issues described in the OP.
I would be delighted if someone could bring more efficient HR confronting arguments!
My best guess is people with disabilities, but I couldn't really speculate on specifics.
ADHD, anything alleviated by advanced ergonomics that aren't provided in the office, compromised immune systems... some might be a stretch though
How about the well-rested bonus you can bring to the workplace because you don't have to commute. It's one of the rare cases where it's actually a good idea to argue with employee efficiency as giving them even 10% of the overall gains benefits them and they might even think you're a brainless worker drone really doing it for the company.