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The COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant shift worldwide on how we think about remote work and work-from-home policies. Return-to-office (RTO) policies, whether full or part time, have become a hot topic for many companies. RTO policies—which are meant to be beneficial for companies and employees—have sparked a somewhat unexpected result: an increase in discrimination claims filed against employers.
As workers have gotten accustomed to doing their jobs remotely, employees with disabilities in particular, are increasingly requesting accommodations from their employers to work from home, part or full time. Refusal by the employer to provide this accommodation, or fully