NEWS! Company insisting you can't 'work from home' also expects you to respond to work emails after you've 'gone home' https://newsthump.com/2026/01/26/company-insisting-you-cant-work-from-home-also-expects-you-to-respond-to-work-emails-after-youve-gone-home/
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πŸ‘† reminds me of all your great ideas, @sarahlehmann, like abandoning #Arbeitszeitgesetz πŸ₯³

@newsthump Including, in one case I know about, an email saying "the office is closed due to snow, don't come to work today", which the employee received after arriving at work and switching on the work laptop.

And this being the USA the employer doesn't pay for such days.

@newsthump "I'm terribly sorry, but according to management I can't work from home. My office hours are..."