What if you work from home and have no Wifi?

[Honeysucklelane]

We both work from home, DH’s work has an office he goes to once or twice a week. My work has no office and we’re all remote.

Our Wifi has gone down, DH is provided with a work mobile so he’s been able to hotspot to it to do work today. We can’t both use his hotspot.

I haven’t got a work mobile or any way of connecting to Wifi for work tomorrow - unless I go out and spend money sitting in a cafe or somewhere with Wifi.

Just curious to know what other home based workers do in this situation? Do your employers expect you to find alternative Wifi? Do they accept you can’t work through no fault of your own? Does your employer provide or pay for Wifi for you?

I’ve been in the office and the internet went down, which meant no access to anything on the servers. We did what we could, but it was accepted as a business risk and so no one was required to take time off.

Now I work from home, I would expect the same - I would do what I can to work offline, make sure that I’m reconnected as soon as possible, but ultimately if the employer wants home workers, they need to accept there is a risk of downtime when technology fails. In theory, this should be a lower impact than everyone being in the office, since not everyone will be affected