WFH is dead and buried. Right to WFH bill is pointless

In the context of someone saying only farmers work from home.

Where's the definition?

What if I'm in remote hub, but not actually at home. Is that WFH?

If I work from someone else's house, it's that working from home? Even though it's not my home. Maybe the home has to up a mountain to be truly remote working. Does that mean if live near work but working from home that's not actually remote working. How about if I telework but don't use a telephone just email. Maybe that's not telework either.

So many questions and no answers.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment-rights-and-conditions/health-and-safety/working-at-home/

"Remote working is an arrangement where instead of going to your employer's workplace, you do some or all of your work from another location"

So, yes if you are working from your home, a friends home, at the park, at a café you are working from home. It doesn't matter how close you live to your workplace.

It's a very simple thing to understand, no idea why you're trying to conflate it.

You're taking the "home" word far too literally here.

It's your companies specific policy for that, not all companies, my company doesn't require any safety assessments.

We were given the options of desktop pc's or laptops. Our WFH policy states that we are allowed to work in any environment with a secure wifi connection that can enable the company vpn. This can include another country for up to 2 weeks. All defined in the "Working from Home" policy in our contracts.

No it basically means a stable connection that will not consistently be disconnecting leaving you unable to do your role and not a public open network, eg wifi network in a café. They're happy for us to hotspot our mobile devices, once the work is done and not on an open network, they're happy.

I find it unreasonable that he thinks he can mind a child while at work. Many people regard looking after a child as full time occupation - that's his real problem - he'd likely have got away with it if he hadn't mentioned the child

Depends entirely on the age and the nature of the child. Simply being at home with your school-aged child in case they need something is one thing, but taking care of a toddler or a child with special needs who requires your frequent or constant attention is something else entirely.

The VPN is effectively your employer's requirement

I don't think that's actually what was described. People are inferring that. For me that reads like pickup and drop to a crèche etc, was impossible with a long commute. That's quite different.

Not conflating it. I'm playing devil's advocate because someone said working at home wasn't WFH. There are lots of different variations called different things. We can be pedantic about titles.

But it's a point well made about having a suitable environment and equipment and these can be checked as a condition for allowing it.