Can’t tell if mocking me or trying to be helpful.
Mocking the guy who went to GTIfan....
In order to be helpful, I would suggest (and I did Return to Office and exemptions) last year, a multi step strategy
Be able to clearly state why the job can be done remotely. You may not need to, but be ready to.
Identify barriers for you to physically go to the office regularly (PTSD/air quality in building/sitting in long commute/medications etc. - identifying things that are personal to you. Example - while air quality may affect everyone, it may affect you differently due to a pre-existing medical condition and so forth. Sitting in traffic may aggravate a back injury. Some medications may affect your ability to drive, but won't affect job performance. We had one person who would drive to work, take pain meds and wait for them to wear off until they drove back home - while being in pain during their commute - they were a great performer and performance increased when working remotely.
The air quality thing is interesting. empty buildings don't age well, filters aren't changed as required and nasty stuff grows in strange places. Those things affect people differently. In my building, my allergies would go nuts at 1400 - when a certain AC unit kicked in. When I complained, they did an air quality test (at 10am) and the system passed. Once I had narrowed down the "it starts at 1400", they did another test and found that the AC unit that started then, sucked in air from some sort of an overflow for the fire suppression system and that overflow was all crudded up. It didn't bother most people, but drove my nose nuts - by 1300 I felt like I had a raging cold that cleared up as soon as I walked out of the building.
These are things under the Americans with Disabilities Act and telework/remote work falls under reasonable accommodation - assuming that you can show that the job can be done with that accommodation.
Feel free to ping me if you want.
