Overview
As our world changes, the workforce is continually changing with new legislation/laws, employment practices, and ways of doing business. As these changes occur, organizations must evolve and adapt to stay compliant and relevant to continue engaging, attracting, and retaining employees. At times, these changes must be documented and become a standard of how the organization operates. As a human resource professional, you may be required to write policies, enforce them, and provide clarity to employees.
In this module, you responded to managers and non-managers regarding a request to work remotely. This conflict has created a need for clear and accurate communication regarding remote work, in the form of a written work-from-home (WFH) policy. In this assignment, you will draft a WFH policy describing the organization’s point of view and process on remote work. This policy is for all employees. As you begin this assignment, spend some time thinking about how organizations have responded to remote work and what policies were needed to address this change. For example, you may consider policies related to work hours, such as registering or showing as present when working remotely, as well as remote work expectations.
Directions
To complete this assignment, write a remote work policy. As you develop your policy, consider the following questions. You will need to research existing policies to find criteria for these questions.
Why is the company developing a new policy?
How is remote work defined for the company? (You might define this as fully remote, hybrid, flexible, and more.)
When will the policy go into effect? Is there an end date?
- Consider the employee and organizational expectations for your policy.
- What are the expectations of employees? Consider pay, hours worked, work schedules, benefits, job status (full/part time), and job performance.
- How does an employee request to work remotely?
What are the responsibilities of management?
How do you apply the policy fairly?
- Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
- Purpose: Explain the purpose of the work-from-home policy change in a way that clearly illustrates the rationale for employees.
- Expectations: Describe specific expectations, benefits, requests, and responsibilities of the policy.
- Consequences: Explain what the consequences are if the policy’s expectations are not met.