to think I'd be breaking the rules?

[plessuregirle]

Currently working from home. Son goes to his childminder 3 days a week. I then go to my dad's house to work as my office is set up there. I don't have room at mine for my monitors and a desk. I live far away from the childminder because with me working from my dad's, who is round the corner, it works really well. So if lockdown were to happen, I would have to travel 20 miles to childminder, then go to my dad's to work, pick my son up then drive home another 20 miles. Would I technically be breaking rules by going to my dad's house? Or would this be considered my place of work?

He's round he corner from the childminder I mean.

It IS your place of work.

The rules are work from home if possible, aren't they?
It's not possible for you to work from home. You've found a solution which is probably way better than actually going into an office (if your office is even open).

I find it hard to believe anyone would dob you in for this , or that the authorities would be interested.

It wouldn’t be considered your place of work because you’ve put a desk there

It's a desk with a printer and two permanent monitors that I cannot fit in my own home.m so not just a laptop. I've also had a desk risk assessment done there by my workplace. I'm just trying to make sure I'm not going to be breaking any rules if we go in to another lockdown.

Of course you're not. It's your place of work.

It wouldn’t be considered your place of work because you’ve put a desk there

It's her place of work, the place which has the equipment required to work, would it be her place of work if that's where her lathe or sewing machine were? Of course it would - why is it different just because her computer equipment is there.

It does sound like the sort of job where it would be easier to take the equipment home than the lathe, but it doesn't fundamentally change the principle.

I've also had a desk risk assessment done there by my workplace.

That might legitimise it as being, currently, 'your place of work'. Perhaps you could get your company to put in writing that until you can safely return to the office, your normal place of work is .

I think the fact your work has actually done its risk assessment there really means you can say it is your place of work.

Also can you bubble with your Dad? Or is he in a bubble with someone else?