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>Given the absolutely massive disadvantages WFH imposes on an entire company it's almost certainly going to continue to be considered a unreasonable burden.

I've seen a company spend 10 grand to make a specific door automatically open for a guy in a wheelchair only for that person to move on to a different office 2 months later. So this guy would, get up, shower daily, fling him and a wheelchair into a modified car and get out of the car twice a day, drive over an hour round trip, navigate poorly made sidewalks without curb cuts, go up an elevator, just to eventually arrive at the button on the door so we could of course, celebrate the equality with which they are treated. Oh yeah, and he also had to do a bunch of extra work every day of his life in other ways. But a lot of these problems were related to time he was technically off the clock, so on paper, he was treated equally.

I sort of think it's completely mad the unreasonable burden disabled people have stoically shouldered for so long. I am really happy that COVID has really changed people's perceptions enough that more people seem to be asking for and being permitted accommodations and are generally less stigmatised for doing so. I'd really like to see the research that allowing the disabled specifically to work from home imposes a massive burden on the entire company.

I don't accept the argument that the fact that the majority of the population is not working from home, means we shouldn't allow a minority of the population to work from home. The whole point of disability accommodations is that the accommodations are NOT the norm.