Office closing, - can I be made to work from home?

StickyRicky

I have been with my company for a long time and they have announced the closure of the plant where my office is.
I work in the IT function / Systems team and my role is a global one, but I operate mainly from the local plant.
Most people in the plant will be made redundant, but I believe my boss (in a plant 170 miles away) thinks I will carry on working from home.

Do I have any options?

Thanks

[Deleted User]

What is it that you want? A 170 mile commute sounds challenging.

There's lots of benefits to working from home, as long as you have a degree of self discipline, and you'd save yourself a 340 mile round trip each day.

k3lvc

StickyRicky wrote: »

Do I have any options?

Depends on your wishes and negotiation skills

1) relocation to new plant
2) commute - either part or full week
3) work from home
4) redundancy

All depends on your location/age/skills/family circumstances and whether you can find anything else in local area

Peelerfart

Would I be right in assuming you'd rather be redundant than work from home?

getmore4less

Have you ever worked from home in this job?

Global tends to need early starts(East) late working(West).

StickyRicky

Thanks

Redundancy would be favourite, but as some of the other guys said, I'll probably need to negotiate...