[sanguy]

Very common in EU unfortunately. Are you in the DACH region as it seems particularly neurotic over employees in general.

Going through the same thing and the excuses to block work from home are comical.

1) It goes against GPDR policy to allow employees to have access to such data at home.

2) How do we ensure the employees are actually working on what we need them to do?

3) How do we ensure they are putting in a full work day?

4) Why should we allow working from home to social distance without knowing if they do the same in their personal time?

Several of these are actually issues they suffer with physical workers because they micro manage and are paranoid that all employees are against management.

If they would realize that if you let good people do what you hire them for you will realize most are very loyal and focused on doing the best for the company.