• Who can work remotely, and how it is agreed

  Eligibility, roles that cannot be remote, full or part-time remote, how to ask, the answer time and where an arrangement is recorded.

• Changing or withdrawing it

  When an employer may change or end an arrangement, on notice and with a reason, and the same right for the employee to ask.

• Location, hours and keeping in touch

  The agreed place, approval for working elsewhere or from another state or country, hours to be reachable and check-ins.

• Equipment, costs and safety

  What the employer provides and what the employee provides, whether and how costs are contributed to, and a safe working environment.

• Security, meetings and team

  Information security rules, printing at home, coming to the premises, and staying in the loop.

A remote work policy sets out who may work away from the premises, how an arrangement is agreed and recorded, when it can be changed or withdrawn, where the work may be done, hours and keeping in touch, how work is reviewed, equipment, costs, working environment and safety, information security, coming in and staying part of the team.

This blank form is completed by the employer. It says it does not change anyone's employment agreement. It does not say who is entitled to work remotely or who bears which cost: those are blanks. Working from another state or country can change an employer's tax, insurance and legal obligations, and the form says it needs separate consideration, so take advice before agreeing it.

Not sure? Talk to an attorney about your situation first.

These are separate documents, for different jobs.

• Employee handbooksThe policies and expectations for your staff, in one place.View document
• Workplace policiesSet out how your workplace runs on a specific issue.View document
• Employment agreementsSet out pay, role and terms for an employee.View document
• Cross-border employment supportHelp employing people in another country.View document

• A company allows two days a week at home
• A manager reviews an arrangement that is not working
• An employee asks to work from another state for a month

• Employment agreementsSet out pay, role and terms for an employee.View document
• Offer lettersMake a job offer in writing, with its key terms.View document
• Employee handbooksThe policies and expectations for your staff, in one place.View document
• Workplace policiesSet out how your workplace runs on a specific issue.View document