Me again lol So I work for a department that focuses on health prevention. We are not frontline , we get weekends and major holidays off. We have been reminded of that throughout covid that we aren’t hospital based so we had the luxury of being able to work from home.
From the beginning however admin have had to fight for that right. Our health was placed below our colleagues & there was very flakey about guidance for us and we eventually got remote access. We go in at least once a week to use the printers etc but there isn’t anything we can’t do at home that we would have done in the office. We voted as a department recently about how we wanted to continue and everyone voted for combined / wfh.
Today from meetings it has been noted that admin will be expected to be in more than senior managers moving forward and I imagine soon with relaxed restrictions. We knew this would happen. We are always treated bottom of the totem pole. Im anticipation what would your advice be? Collectively we don’t understand what the great need is for us to be in the office while others are still at home/ while we have been working just fine from home. We think the rules should apply to all fair and square. There are people who have not come into the office once this whole time will now get to continue to benefit.
It’s just so infuriating to be reminded one again that we are the skivvys our health isn’t valued and we are the least paid in the whole department!