Appendix 19 - Home workers Policy
We support home working where appropriate on an ad hoc only basis.
Conditions of homeworking
Childcare arrangements should be in place – homeworking is not granted to deal with ongoing childcare issues.
It is the employee’s responsibility to ensure that they have sufficient and appropriate equipment for working from home and an environment conducive to productive work. It is also the employee’s responsibility to ensure that any mortgage/rental agreements, home insurance policies do not prohibit working from home.
Tracklements are not responsible for the provision, maintenance, replacement, or repair in the event of loss or damage to any personal equipment used by the employee when working.
Tracklements are not responsible for associated costs of you working from home including the costs of heating, lighting, electricity or telephone calls on the landline.
All equipment and information must be kept securely. In particular, private and confidential material must be kept secure at all times. The Company must be satisfied that all reasonable precautions are being taken to maintain confidentiality of material in accordance with our requirements and that the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018 are met. In particular, the employee will be required to follow our Data Protection Policy.
All employees must report any defects or problems with any equipment provided for the purposes of homeworking to their manager or to the IT support representative.
Employees should ensure they have the correct set up at home for working, such as a quiet place to work and take calls, as well as a desk and a chair, to ensure the correct posture is adopted at all times. A DSE assessment form should be completed on an annual basis, in conjunction with your manager, to check your set up and ongoing requirements.
Employees must not have meetings in their home with customers and must not give out home address details to customers or clients.