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An employer’s offer of remote work from the office may be an ADA reasonable accommodation alternative to work from home

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Let me set the scene for you.

A teacher who had just taken leave under the Family Medical Leave Act during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to undergo heart and kidney transplant surgeries learns that the school where he teaches is requiring in-school teaching. Because he is immunocompromised, his doctors recommend working remotely. So, the teacher requests to work from home. However, the school requires that students and teachers come to school and proposes three alternatives:

Teach remotely from his classroom using virtual learning technology while his students observe from a nearby computer lab with an educational assistant

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