Do employers have to grant hybrid working requests in a post-pandemic world?

Posted in : Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 10 November 2021
Seamus McGranaghan
O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors
Issues covered: Hybrid Working; Coronavirus; Custom and Practice

The emergence of hybrid working is allowing organisations to work in different ways. We're reaping the benefit of that. We can now meet again face to face and benefit from connections there, but then our productivity has gone up when we're working at home. So a mixture may be really the way forward. But it's certainly thrown up issues and problems for HR professionals for businesses. We've all been doing this in some form or another for the last 18 months.

Seamus, if we start with you, do employers have to grant hybrid working because it has worked during the pandemic?

Seamus: This is interesting. I suppose the interesting aspect of the question is really looking around if they are

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Seamus McGranaghan
O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors

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