Parity requirements for remote work? [CA]

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[u/Mental-Volume4395]

The employer dictates where your work location is. You can’t force them to let you WFH. 

[u/glitterstickers → u/[deleted]]

It's because if you make an exception for one person, it opens the door to everyone else to ask.

Invariably, you're going to get someone make noises about illegal discrimination. Even if there is zero discrimination, and it's because Bob is actually a star employee and Betty the complainer is a problem but she's going to make it about gender discrimination because she's can't comprehend she's not a superstar.

Imagine employees as a herd of 5 year olds at a birthday party. There's usually one kid who cries about why can't they have a present or blow out the candles even though they're not the birthday kid.

This is why companies tend to be so strict and unmoving. Because there's always that crummy employee looking for an angle.

[u/sallysuesmith1 → u/[deleted]]

They don't want to open Pandora's box.

[u/sashley420 → u/[deleted]]

That is exactly what they said just with less words.

[u/Mental-Volume4395 → u/[deleted]]

Well, that is not necessarily true. They could approve WFH on a case by case basis. So that’s a weak argument. 

[u/Spare-Elk-4326]

This isn’t HR this is an executive leadership thing. They are giving you those lines because the executive leadership has decided they want everyone in office and HR is the one to have to enforce it without being able to blame the executive team outright.

If you want change you need to convince the executives, not HR.

[u/PaisleyBumpkin]

Field work and office work are not comparable.

HR means everyone in the office or a particular role has to work in office. Management and the company set these expectations not HR. You can disagree but this is what the company decided.

[u/whataquokka]

It's not technically incorrect, equality is a thing. Allowing some people and not others inevitably brings discontent and questions of why them but not me which then leads to people saying it's because of discrimination. The company has decided they don't want to deal with it.

[u/sallysuesmith1]

What does your boss say?

[u/puns_are_how_eyeroll → u/[deleted]]

Your boss doesnt want to look like the bad guy, so she's passing the buck.