Injured at Home: Workers’ Compensation Claims in a Remote Work World

The ability to work remotely used to be considered a luxury: a valuable perk that many employees desired, but that most didn’t have. Times have changed, and we now live in a remote work world.

Not everyone works remotely -- and many who do are not remote all the time -- but, undeniably, remote work is more common now than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

First, it is important to note that each company will have different employee expectations and parameters based on that company’s unique culture and values. However, most adopting remote work will fall into one of these categories:

Asynchronous (no physical office, work any hours, work in any region/time zone).
Synchronous Working Remotely (no physical office, must work fixed hours and/or live in specific time zones).
Flexible Hybrid (some days remote; other days at the physical office).
Fixed Hybrid (certain groups of employees are fully remote; other groups are fully at the physical office).