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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went back in work in person 5 days a week in Prior job remote three years.

My new job I started same time as another person who is hybrid. Only 3 days in office. Which means 40 percent of time his chair is empty. His learning curve is so slow. People don’t go to him for much as why bother the chair is empty most days. He also knows less people. He asks me who does what a lot.

Recently he asked about promotion. Was told since all people are not hybrid he will have to come to work five days a week. It was like he was hit with a cold pail of water.

His problem, or my problem or her problem whatever case is. I stopped doing any zoom or on line meetings or even outlook meetings with remote people. I only meet in person. The more people do that the harder it gets to do remote.

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So if you had a disabled colleague who worked from home most of the time because that is how she best was able to manage her disability, you'd freeze her out? Wow.[/quote]

Before Covid my office was in person 5 days, we had one blind woman with a seeing eye dog and a number of features on her computer that allowed her to do her job seamlessly, another guy in a wheelchair who had no need for any accommodations beyond a higher desk. Now we have a number of people who have developed anxiety over being together and it is significantly more difficult to accommodate them than it was their physically disabled peers. Our physically disabled colleagues continue to be fully capable of working in an office and seem fine with being there.[/quote]

It is a proven fact that remote work has led to big increases in employment of disabled workers. Studies have proven it. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/jobs-for-people-with-disabilities-hit-new-post-pandemic-high-rcna93084

Your anecdote about your disabled co-workers is just that - an anecdote. And it's really patronizing of you to speak for them to say they are "just fine" with being there. Maybe they are. Maybe they'd really prefer to have at least some days remote because it would be easier on them, but they just don't share that with you. You really have no clue what it's like to live in a physically disabled body, what it's like to navigate the metro system or the bus or a bumpy sidewalk when you are mobility challenged, what it's like when you have colitis or a colostomy bag to have to use the office bathroom that is far down the hallway, rather than your own private bathroom right next to your office, like it is in your home, what it's like to need to take off a prosthetic that is irritating your stump, but you don't want to do it in your open office where people will stare, what it's like to not have a couch to lie down on to work on when you have severe vertigo that comes and goes, what it's like to fear having a seizure in front of co-workers, and so many other ways it can be fatiguing and irritating to have to go into an office environment when you have physical disabilities. People with disabilities often don't share these sorts of intimate details of their reality with non-disabled people.

So yes, remote work has been great for many workers with disabilities, whose employment rates are still dismally lower than the non/not-yet-disabled. [/quote]

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