Working From Home

• Published date: 02 September 2020
• Subject Matter: Privacy, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Data Protection, Employment and Workforce Wellbeing
• Law Firm: Littler Mendelson
• Author: Mr Daniel Pollard

With many employees having worked from home for the few past months, employers are now reassessing the long-term feasibility of remote working. As homeworking was first adopted as an emergency measure out of necessity, not all of the implications were fully considered and we set out below a checklist of the issues to take into account.

Where employers encourage or permit homeworking, it is important to remember that their duties to provide a safe system of work and to safeguard third parties personal data and confidential information apply equally to employees who work remotely. The lack of uniformity in the facilities that employees have at home...