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How do you deal with coworkers that don’t understand or keep forgetting your boundaries?

I work from home and have permission to do so because of my chronic pain. My manager, HR and the top management are aware of this. I complete my responsibilities on time, get work done quickly and efficiently and they acknowledge that. Yet, despite having told them repeatedly how my health is unpredictable and I have flare ups, they continue to ask me to come for work sometimes. They understand when I tell them that it’s difficult, but after a few months they ask me again. I don’t want to explain myself over and over again and want them to understand, but this tends to keep happening. How do I say no respectfully and politely, without having to go into an explanation about my health again? (Edit: Also, I don’t know if this is important to mention, but sometimes I have this fear where I think that my manager and…


I work from home and have permission to do so because of my chronic pain.
My manager, HR and the top management are aware of this.
I complete my responsibilities on time, get work done quickly and efficiently and they acknowledge that.

Yet, despite having told them repeatedly how my health is unpredictable and I have flare ups, they continue to ask me to come for work sometimes. They understand when I tell them that it’s difficult, but after a few months they ask me again.
I don’t want to explain myself over and over again and want them to understand, but this tends to keep happening. How do I say no respectfully and politely, without having to go into an explanation about my health again?

(Edit: Also, I don’t know if this is important to mention, but sometimes I have this fear where I think that my manager and the top management will disregard all the times I’ve done my job well and will hold on to the fact that I am not there “on ground”/“in office” when they ask me to and will use that against me to fire me or something else, even though I know that’s not the truth and will not happen.)

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