The pandemic has changed the way that we work forever and it’s now harder to rely on one of the eight business grounds to deny a request for permanent homeworking from an employee who has successfully worked from home during lockdown.
It would be our advice in dealing with such requests to aim for a compromise of partial homeworking and partial office-based working.
As an employer, it is clear that you will need to continue to embrace flexible working one way or another.
Speak to us about how you can manage these changing conditions.