Timeline for Can I get in trouble for smoking on a video call while working from home?
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| May 29, 2020 at 20:48 | comment | added | allo | Don't you think they do it to protect your coworkers from smoke and to protect their office room from smelling? Dirtying your own (home)office room is kind of your own business and they do not have to tell you how to treat your health. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 14:39 | comment | added | paul23 | @Steve-O actually company is responsible in The Netherlands, within reasonable limits. So if work requires field trips and company can make rules that also others not smoke they are forced to do that. If it's outside the ability of the company they're not. It's not that hard. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 14:36 | comment | added | paul23 | @DavidSchwartz in the netherlands it would be the employer: they have to provide a healthy work environment so if it's impossible to get the healthy environment at home they need to provide another place. If you then still prefer working at home it's your call though. Now with corona it's obviously muddied a bit since it's the government that enforces working from home, so the company cannot fulfill due to outside influences. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 13:14 | comment | added | Steve-O | @DavidSchwartz If the team goes on a field trip to an actual field and there's somebody else there already who's smoking, who's responsible? I don't live in Bulgaria, so I don't know the actual answer, but I suspect that the company is ultimately only responsible for the behaviour of their own employees. | |
| May 28, 2020 at 23:06 | comment | added | Victor Zakharov | @DavidSchwartz: If you have a group of drunk individuals in the background who are playing blackjack and constantly swearing, you are responsible for not finding reasonable accommodation for yourself to have a video call. No-one would mind a smoker in another room. | |
| May 28, 2020 at 21:01 | comment | added | David Schwartz | So who is responsible if I'm working from home and someone else in my home is smoking? Me or my employer? Both? | |
| May 28, 2020 at 16:37 | history | answered | fraxinus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |