Re:What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)
by MaxBarraclough on Sunday July 21, 2019 @11:20AM
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> The thing about being able to have remote workers is that it works best when the company culture works in a way where everyone could be remote
Not really. It can make good sense for a company to generally insist on working from the office, but to make reasonable exceptions.
> How do you include them? By making everyone remote.
No, you just take reasonable steps.
> So now in order to accommodate someone you have to change the work environment for everyone
No, you don't.
In fact, now a disabled person is going to likely be excluded from the team because they're working remotely. How do you include them? By making everyone remote. That way people don't rely on a culture where documentation is interrupting someone at their desk (ps they won't respond on Slack or what have you, because if you really need to ask them something, just come by & interrupt them at their desk)
So now in order to accommodate someone you have to change the work environment for everyone