My understanding of the RTO is that there is a signup to reserve an office/cubicle and it's based on availability. The cubicle can be reserved for up to 30 days. Obviously this is not a long term situation and would create quite a bit of work for staff who handle moving and modifying office furniture. As a FTT I was given guidelines on how to set up my desk to avoid repetitive stress injury. Are these rules going to be followed when you show up at your desk that's at a height for a person of 6 foot tall when you are only 5 foot tall? How will they handle the workers comp claims when people start complaining of back pain from working at a desk that doesn't accommodate them?
Personally if I saw that my assigned desk was not lowered to the proper height and a keyboard tray supplied; I would take a photo and turn around and go back home to work. Provide the photo evidence to your manager and if there is no recourse, contact your state's labor dept.
Another course of action is to tough it out, go the chiropractor with your injury and file a worker's comp claim. When they deny it: sue.
I'm not sure if Optum/UHG is self-insured but I know the workers comp underwriters don't like their customers filing claims too often and let their customers know it.
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When I was in the office circa 2016 they could care less why would they start now.
I'm neuro-divergent. Either let me work from home or give me private office space.
@sx you don't remember many people were full-time telecommute even back then?
Why is it that no one remembers pre-covid when we all went into the office 5 days a week?
@OP you sound like a loser
People never understand things until it happens to them. There is a lot of those type of people in the comments. They will scoff at your condition or disability. Keep doing what you need to do because these people don’t mean a thing in your life.
I can tell you are fun to work with.
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@OP the desks are adjustable. Sitting, standing or anywhere in between. Same with the monitors. You will be fine.