My current office location is around 25 min drive away. The company has bought another company and told us we’ll need to move to their office almost an hour and a half away. I only started this job 4 months ago and would NEVER have accepted a job at the new location. With 3 children in primary and husband working an hour away, it’s just not practical. Even with school breakfast clubs and after school clubs, I just can’t see how it’ll work. They want me to go into the new office twice a week. I’ll be losing an extra 2 hours of my day to travel time but work load not changing so even if I leave earlier in the morning and earlier in the evening to get home, I’ll still have the same workload so will have to catch up in the evenings and I’m so worried that there will be accidents on the M25 (unavoidable) delaying me getting home to collect kids. Also, the money! I’ve worked out in petrol alone it’ll be over £3k per year! Not including wear and tear in the car. Also additional wrap around/childcare costs.
Sooo.. we need to send our questions in next week. What is reasonable? Can I ask for compensation for these additional costs? I’m so worried!