Sydney mother of special needs child wins battle to work from home

“The company also highlighted that Kliffen had been seen at a social lawn bowls event for the company, but had not been seen in the office.” 

So she makes the time to attend events specifically for social purposes with colleagues to maintain “effective and appropriate relationships” – why is that being used against her. Most people can wfh just fine without needing to come into the office for arbitrary days. And I note that at no point did the company say anything about her work being impacted by not coming in. For fucks sake, return to work apologists need to get their heads out of their n butts.

She shouldn’t have had to fight.

Where the jobs allow and can be done from home, it should be able to be done from home, end of.

The only time I’ve felt it was appropriate to work in the office was when a new guy started and needed some physical colleagues to help him settle in. After a month he was super keen to work from home himself, so everyone was happy.