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Redundancy and WFH

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redundancy10 · 26/07/2025 16:19

I didn’t really think about this until now but short version is our entire team have been made redundant, they’re closing our department and moving it to another centre which is hours away
I WFH full time as a reasonable adjustment and have since 2020 but they’ve said they “don’t like home workers and everyone needs to be office based”

is that legal? I have another job to go to but more curious than anything

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redundancy10 · 29/07/2025 12:13

MrsBennetsPoorNerves · 29/07/2025 09:49

Presumably, you have consultation meetings as part of the redundancy process in which you can ask questions. Can you point out that you're wfh due to reasonable adjustments and say that you'd like to continue on the new contracts with the same adjustments?

Would the new job be identical to the one that you do now, or might there be significant differences? Could you answer questions about all of the other brands if you carried on working from home (with appropriate training provided as required)?

If it's the same job (or very close), and there is evidence that the job can be done equally well from home, then they may be on dodgy ground. However, if they have evidence that the job doesn't work as well from home as it does from the call centres, then they may be able to argue valid business reasons.

Identical job

consultation meetings done, they’ve just given some fluff about office based and everyone needs to be in the office with no real.. reason
I’ll look up the notes when I’m in work tomorrow and see what I put

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redundancy10 · 29/07/2025 12:13

FleshLiabilities · 29/07/2025 09:36

I'm probably being a bit thick here, but are they trying to insist you come into your current office to work your notice?

No, morale is that bad they’ve actually let everyone WFH because we all walked out for the day when they announced it

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bringonthecrumpets · 29/07/2025 12:19

Ive been in this situation and had to fight to get my contract amended so it now shows my work address is my home address. Any informal agreement or arrangement will not protect you against redundancy, especially if it was related to Covid which most companies treat as normal flu these days.
If you formally submitted a formal flexible working request and had it agreed as a permanent change you may be able to use that.

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 30/07/2025 17:51

Tell them you will move but your reasonable adjustments due to disability will need to continue ... see what they say.

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redundancy10 · 11/08/2025 16:24

I forgot to come back with the response

it says having colleagues in 2 centres will standardise processes and improve customer experience and allow them to allocate tasks more appropriately
so that’s why they want to make 8 centres redundant and go down to 2 and no WFH

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LlynTegid · 11/08/2025 16:59

redundancy10 · 11/08/2025 16:24

I forgot to come back with the response

it says having colleagues in 2 centres will standardise processes and improve customer experience and allow them to allocate tasks more appropriately
so that’s why they want to make 8 centres redundant and go down to 2 and no WFH

Shows how poor they are. A process can be standardised across multiple locations.

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redundancy10 · 11/08/2025 22:49

LlynTegid · 11/08/2025 16:59

Shows how poor they are. A process can be standardised across multiple locations.

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It’s just weird because you make the job redundant not the person from what I understand, but our job will still exist, just not in our location

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Wexone · 11/08/2025 23:06

NeedZzzzzssss · 27/07/2025 02:16

I think you've been lucky you've been allowed to continue with this arrangement given covid isn't even a thing anymore. Given you also have a job to go to what are you hoping to achieve? Are you just trying to get some money?

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how is having a disability lucky? this is not another jelouse post about wfh. it exists its here to stay not matter what anyone says

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