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Employment among people with disabilities has remained well below that of the broader population, with an average disability employment gap of 27 percentage points across OECD countries. In the United States, this low disability employment has proved resistant to policy interventions, including the accommodations required under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

As employers recalibrate return-to-office expectations in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic, they continue to confront requests from employees for remote work as an accommodation. In this Legal Update, we review the current state of the law surrounding remote work as an accommodation and provide tips for employers to consider when dealing with remote work…