To feel like some reasonable adjustments are actually unreasonable

[Tiredjusttired]

Fully prepared to get flamed here, but please hear me out.

The small team I work in has an increasingly large proportion of people receiving workplace adjustments for disabilities such as ADHD, stomach issues, MS, depression, heart problems. The adjustments typically involve less workload, more time to complete tasks, less responsibility, less travel, priority for desk based tasks (while being paid the same as those with full responsibility and workload obligations).

My problem is that it means there is no capacity for the rest of us to catch a breath, undertake shadowing for professional development, or do general CPD, since the overall team workload has remained the same. I keep telling myself it is right my employer makes these adjustments, but it just feels so unfair. I’ve had to work so much of today to keep up with the workload. The ones without reasonable adjustments have to pick up the slack.

Does anyone else feel similarly? I guess I can take comfort in the fact my employer will hear me out when or if I have health issues myself, although the policy for menopause/pregnancy is very frugal. Currently, it seems a bit two-tier .

Stop doing more than you have capacity for

you Get as much done as you can get done for the amount of hours you work!

too right!!!

yes!

Both these people have disabilities that would be obvious at interview.

And there's no reason any of that couldn't be mentioned at interview stage is there?

It's the people that apply for receptionist jobs for example then say they can't do people facing. Or a surgeon that's got a phobia of blood. Or someone who has a " fear of driving" due to MH that applies as a delivery driver

Absolutely none of your examples put your CO workers at a disavanted or increase their workloads

You do realise that there are some people who have reasonable adjustments who would prefer not to be going through occupational health, and wish they could go back to before their diagnosis. I’ve been asked by previous colleagues to justify why I got a laptop when everyone else used a desktop or why I have a dictation system for when I struggle to type and they don’t, or why I have a mouse that cost over £250.
BTW the job I do now, there are four of us who have the same role across the county I live and work in, I have the biggest area, most staff in the team and I do the job over 30 hours per week unlike the other three who work 37 hours. I’m very good at my job and unlike yourself, my team do value the contribution that I make daily and are willing to help me when needed because they understand the daily challenges I face living with a degenerative condition.
Be grateful that you have your health because I would rather have not received the diagnosis than I got eight years ago, I’d rather not have the laptop, dictation software or mouse - but here I am requesting reasonable adjustments so that I can do my job well.

than frankly it's stupid. If a lot of businesses fold then there's no employment for disabled but also no taxes to support them - no NHS, no PIP, no UC

We need to be pragmatic about what is health condition and what is true disability and what is reasonable or unreasonable adjustment and what is plain p..s taking

This debate is about reasonable or unreasonable adjustments. A few previous cases are pure examples of former, I don't think anyone can disagree that equipment must be provided to enable a person to do their job.

The issue that OP raised is about adjustment when a person cannot meet full requirements of their role and some parts of it have to be picked up by colleagues. Example of people facing role when a person can't do this.