Hello, I've just come to the end of a year of parental leave and am now returning to work. My employer is a private sector family business type of affair. I was previously on 4 days/week with a half day worked from home (0.9). When I started discussions about returning to work, I asked to return doing 3 days/week with a half day from home (0.7), they said fine. At the last minute I was told my boss would not authorise the half day from home (i.e. would only allow 3 days, 0.6), I was asked to fill out a flexible working application. I did this on the basis of going from 0.9 to 0.6 as they had suggested. I am now feeling a little disgruntled at losing the half day home working (which I will do anyway due to the nature of my work). The pay is still good but I feel as though I should have stayed on the existing arrangement. The business may be impacted by the Covid situation so I felt I should agree to what they said. They are flexible and have been very good to me in the past, which is why I wanted to be flexible in my attitude to them. There's nothing to be done now as I've already requested the change in writing but I just wanted to vent as it's been bothering me!!! Has anyone experienced anything similar or can advise? It's my first time taking parental leave from work so I have no practise at negotiating my way back in! Thank you in advance for reading this dull post! 
