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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you have to drug yourself up to go to the office? Are you well enough to be working at all? Does your employer offer LTD?[/quote]

Op here. I can work from home no problem, but I have to take breaks.

I wasn’t really well enough to go to the office but felt backed into a corner.[/quote]

OP, this is difficult to understand.  What do you do during your "Breaks" at home that you could not do in the office?[/quote]

It is not difficult to understand for anyone with a serious chronic health problem.

All travel consumes energy. Healthy people have that energy to spend; many people with disabilities do not because we are using substantial amounts of it on surviving. (In OP’s case, on healing from sepsis, FFS.)

Commuting spends energy in particular ways—the repetition, the alteration to sleep/wake patterns, either having to drive (which is a substantial cognitive burden) or having to use transit (which means a lot of time “in public”—sometimes a problem for those of us with socially problematic symptoms like needing to lie down or quickly find a bathroom. Metro has none BTW.)

A workspace in a home can be set up to meet the priority of getting the work done while also fully accommodating the body of the person doing the work. Shared workspaces aren’t like this; they are designed for default humans who don’t need to do things like lie down intermittently or have immediate access to bathrooms, food, drink and medications.

People here spouting off about getting “welfare” or “going on disability” have no idea how difficult any of the programs implied by those terms are to access.

OP, I am sorry—it all sucks.[/quote]

PP you are responding to.  I understand chronic health conditions and I also understand reasonable accommodations.  And part of that is being able to articulate why a particular accommodation is necessary.

1. OP neither drives not takes public transportation.  So none of that is relevant.
2. Repetition and alteration of sleep patterns is, if anything, about work schedule and not work location.
3. Alterations to location (placement near a restroom) or layout of workspace in the office location is a common accommodation.
4.  Access to food is...not a thing.[/quote]

I’m not going into it with you on the numbered points. You are betraying left and right that you actually do not know from chronic health conditions this severe.

The bottom line is: her body has enough energy for working or commuting but not both. When the job is location-flexible, the employer’s general preference to get RTO post-pandemic is not what controls. It is whether the accommodation of telework is unreasonable—a thing they have a much harder time proving now that they’ve done it for the entire shop for years.[/quote]

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