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Notice and changes to working location

Lyndsey Hancock

My friend is a remote worker who goes to the office 90 miles away as and when required approximately 2-3 times a month.

They have just handed in their notice and the MD is requiring them to go to the office for the next 3 weeks 8:45 to 17:00.

This entails leaving home at 6:30am and returning home about 7:00pm with 900 miles driving a week and effectively a 65 hour week....

How should they proceed without things turning ugly. The MD is volatile on best days!

Should they just grin and bare it for 3 weeks? These terms are obviously malicious and I think this person is hoping the person is just going to walk away!

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  • There obviously no love lost here - hence your friend resigning.

    I’d be cutting my loses if I was them, and making the resignation “with immediate effect”, with an explanation that the sudden change in working location is unreasonable and unnecessary - assuming there have been no complaints to this point from the MD about working from home affecting your friend’s productivity?

    There are various threads on here about how difficult it is in practice to force someone to work their notice if they don’t want to.

    Your friend would’ve lose out on three weeks of pay (probably unfairly), but equally doesn’t bear the sudden increase in commuting costs.
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  • There obviously no love lost here - hence your friend resigning.

    I’d be cutting my loses if I was them, and making the resignation “with immediate effect”, with an explanation that the sudden change in working location is unreasonable and unnecessary - assuming there have been no complaints to this point from the MD about working from home affecting your friend’s productivity?

    There are various threads on here about how difficult it is in practice to force someone to work their notice if they don’t want to.

    Your friend would’ve lose out on three weeks of pay (probably unfairly), but equally doesn’t bear the sudden increase in commuting costs.
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