“Perhaps just as a reminder – you are contracted to work from the office, and not from home. Our contracts with our clients also requires staff to work in a managed office environment, and indeed, we incur substantial costs and our client have invested in a dedicated internet link between our respective offices in order to improve productivity and user connectivity experience. Covid was an exception to this but as we have been out of the high risk levels of Covid, we are not allowing working from home for personal reasons.
We were being inundated in staff wanting to work from home for short periods for personal reasons (like car trouble), which were not justified at all so we had to draw a hard line with these requests. In the Maddocks team itself, -Manager- has received numerous requests from people asking to work from home which has been declined. We therefore made it very clear that no more such requests will be approved unless justified for a medical reason, as we need to be consistent and fair to all our staff.
The mere fact that you are questioning our reason for declining your request now, shows that we should not have approved any of those previous request as that is now the expectation, instead of you seeing it as the once-off privilege it was.”
- My contract says jack shit about where I need to work and I've never seen their contract with the client
- Apparently the covid lockdowns were a suggestion, not law
- Maybe they should take the hint from all the requests they're getting
- I got Employee of the Month 2 months prior. Not bragging, just giving context to how fucked they are in the head
And the cherry on top? We work remotely from an office for a client overseas