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

StickyRicky · 19 September 2018 at 3:19PM

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] · 19 September 2018 at 3:24PM

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 · 19 September 2018 at 3:34PM

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 · 19 September 2018 at 10:36PM

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

getmore4less · 20 September 2018 at 12:00AM

Have you ever worked from home in this job?

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

StickyRicky · 25 September 2018 at 3:47PM

Thanks

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

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

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