The ADA and the Home Office

By Gary Anderberg, PhD

SVP Claim Analytics
Gallagher Bassett

How many of your employees work from home part time, or even full time? How do you handle issues under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) involving this portion of your workforce?

Perhaps you don’t have remote employees, but many employers do. Last year, FlexJobs reported in their State of the Remote Job Market review that 3.9 million Americans, or 2.9% of the workforce, work from home at least half the time.¹ Your author, for example, works from home, as do many Gallagher Bassett colleagues. DMEC’s staff itself is a great example of a distributed organization, working from home offices across the country. So, how does the ADA and its associated laws and regulations apply in the work-from-home or telework scenario?

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