Looking for advice on dealing with a boss who is extremely difficult to work for. For example, my colleague has worked entirely remotely since COVID hit in March. She had planned to make 2 trips out to her family out of state during the holidays (for Thanksgiving & Christmas) but recently requested to stay during the interim, when it looked like her apartment might be under voluntary evacuation due to wildfires. Said colleague lives alone and found it beneficial to be around family (cont below)

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To whom does she directly report and are they more reasonable?

I have often used a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach with my department when someone wants to do something eminently reasonable that I know is contrary to the views of some of the bigger hardos on my exec team.

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Expect to know? Just don’t tell him.

During this difficult time. Colleague was eventually told that company could not accommodate her request. HR leadership is new and likely manipulated/swayed by boss, who is a senior exec. Any tips? Maybe my opinion is colored by prior experiences but does this sound a bit unreasonable?

If she is remote, how would they know where she is working from?

The "potential legal risk of remote worker in State X, while not licensed in said State" is a bit trite at this point. Partners have long dashed away to more desirable places for weeks (and even months) during normal times. Now that Associates seem to have some flexibility, the old guard keeps rehashing this nonsensical belief that bar regulators are watching our every move.

The fact is it's nobody's business, especially not your host state's bar regulators where the hell you choose to work during these times. It would be great if we could get a case litigated to dispense with this silly myth. If I'm duly licensed in State A, and work on exclusively State A matters while in State B, State B has zero interest in that work. I would take it a step further and say it would be unconstitutional of State B to suggest otherwise. Not to mention that we all work on matters in states where we're not even licensed pretty much everyday of the year in Biglaw firms.

Ok, I'm done with my rant for now......

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