It's ok to stay at home...

[WTFH]

Who lives not too far away, is nearly always contactable and has his spare key?

One neighbour has a key, and then a couple who live about 20 minutes away.
At least that was how it was the last time I checked.

[SueEllen]

Kinda reminds me of my dad, who has a cleaner comes round once a fortnight. It's the same lady, he knows her family, she has taken him to hospital before when he has been ill. She has visited him in hospital when he's been ill. Because he reads the Fail, he won't give her a key to his place, and will always stay in when she is there.

Who lives not too far away, is nearly always contactable and has his spare key?

[NotAllThere]

what a bunch of tools.

Not really. Tools are actually useful.

[sadkingbilly]

what a bunch of tools.

[WTFH]

If I was his gardener, I'd leave.
He wants to supervise the gardener but not his staff? He's got his priorities wrong.

When I've employed people to do stuff around the house in the past, I have checked them, brought them on based on recommendations, and then once I know they are doing the job, I leave them to it. If there's a particular area I want them to work on, I'll call them before hand, or meet to discuss it - either on their previous visit or at the start of this one. If you don't trust people to do their job, then those people will never have the opportunity to do the best thing because it might not be what you consider "right", even when you're wrong.

Kinda reminds me of my dad, who has a cleaner comes round once a fortnight. It's the same lady, he knows her family, she has taken him to hospital before when he has been ill. She has visited him in hospital when he's been ill. Because he reads the Fail, he won't give her a key to his place, and will always stay in when she is there.

[SussexSeagull]

Obviously don't know his contract or agreed working arrangements but when you work from home you are still working and that should be your priority. Stepping back into the real world it will no doubt allow a great deal of flexibility to do things round the house and you will still get lunchtime and breaks to do things, plus spending time in the office doesn't equate to focussing on work 100% of the time as their are distractions.

That said, he is an IT Director meeting the MD so one would expect him to make the effort to go in.

[northernladuk]

I wonder what the disagreement was about - whether he could work from home when the gardeners were in.

That's what I'm wondering. If he's the root of the disagreement it paints a different story. Maybe not in the eyes of the law but might go someway to explain what seems like a daft situation.

[NotAllThere]

The tribunal in Croydon, south London, heard that Ben Wicken had been scheduled to meet the managing director of the IT services company Akita Systems, Christophe Boudet, in person to attempt to resolve a disagreement.

While I think WFH is perfectly fine for many situations, but if you want to resolve a disagreement and rather than do it face to face, you ask for a zoom meeting? Hmm. I'm not massively impressed. I wonder what the disagreement was about - whether he could work from home when the gardeners were in.

[SueEllen]

to supervise workers.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...yment-tribunal

Clearly there are some facts missing. This is the norm regardless of paper that reports it.