What constitutes working from home?
Question: We are a very flexible business. However, due to our focus on health and safety, we have looked into policies regarding our staff working from home. We now realise that we cannot be as casual about it as we have previously been and would prefer that working from home is the exception rather than the rule. Of course, we will consider requests to work from home as they are presented.
My question is, what constitutes working from home from a legal perspective? Some people have made comments that they look at their work emails on their phones when they are at home. Does this constitute working from home?
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