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Remote Work: Legal and Tax Implication for Employers

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While remote work has numerous benefits for both employees and employers—such as improving employee happiness, boosting workplace productivity, and reducing office costs—remote work also creates a web of new legal obligations for employers and new entitlements for employees.

Work from Home: Legal and Tax Implication of Remote Work for Employers is intended to help employers and their professional advisors understand what they need to know about common legal and tax issues that arise when employees work in a state or city that is different from their own.

This paper was co-authored by Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics and Isaac Mamaysky, Partner with Potomac Law Group PLLC. A version of this paper was peer-reviewed by and will appear in the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law (forthcoming, 2022).

– Kate Lister’s U.S. Senate Testimony on Telework (July 29, 2020)

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Kate Lister, President of Global Workplace Analytics was one of three witnesses invited to testify at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works titled, “Lessons Learned from Remote Working during COVID-19: Can the Government Save Money Through Maximizing Efficient Use of Leased Space.” This is her written testimony. A link to the video is included in the document.

State of Telecommuting in the U.S.

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This report focuses solely on full-time employees and does not include data on the self-employed or those who work at home less than half the time. (The entire work-at-home employee population is 10 to 15 times larger than those who do so half-time or more.)