ESL Learning Material: Business Email Scenarios
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business email scenarios, Communications on work from home policies With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging across the world. Work from home policies continue to evolve for some, this has led to conflicts between employer and employee and communicating one's needs especially to an employer or manager can be difficult. Have a look at the below guide and expressions regarding reconsideration of a work from home policy. One to start have a look at this sample email from a manager linda to her staff regarding changes in the company's work from home policy subject work from home ending effective 9 15. Body Dear team as the vast majority of our staff has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and in line with public health recommendations, we are ending our current work from home policies effective September 15 while team members will be permitted one work from home day per week. In line with our revised policies. The exact day will be determined shortly. The rest of the work week will be taking place in person face to face interactions. Have always been a critical part of operations here at our company and I trust that many are eagerly awaiting the opportunity to interact once more with the rest of our team sincerely linda two as it happens However, in person work is currently not a viable option for Mark as he lives with his immuno compromised spouse. As such. Mark plans to send the following email to linda requesting that she reconsider how the work from home policy might be applied to him subject ari upcoming work from home changes body dear linda, I wanted to write to you regarding the upcoming changes in our company's work from home policies. As you may know, I'm currently living with my immuno compromised spouse and given the recent proliferation of new variants of the virus, I'm not sure how well I could adjust to a full return in person office schedule. I know that face to face interactions are incredibly important for much of our workflow but I'd like to see what alternative options might be available. Given my current situation, I'd be happy to hop on a quick call with you and discuss as well. Looking forward to hearing from you. Mark tips and suggestions as always try to get your main point across quickly. Your subject should be clear and concise in this case. Mark notes that his email is regarding upcoming changes in the company's policies and he immediately explains his individual circumstances. Explain your personal situation in detail. If you're asking for reconsideration of a case because of personal circumstances. Make sure the relevance of your personal circumstances as well as the personal circumstances themselves are well explained in your message. Focus on the rational reasons behind why you're requesting a reconsideration and avoid including personal emotions. Policy reconsideration should be decided based on the facts of a situation. So try to keep to that. In your message, acknowledge the current policy notice that Mark acknowledges the importance of face to face communication when he asks for alternative options. This demonstrates to linda that he has an understanding of the rationale behind her policy. It's always good to include a brief summary of the current policy that you're hoping to have reconsidered, always be polite and offer alternatives where possible as always with any sort of email. It's important to use polite speech and proper addresses where appropriate politeness is especially important in the case of request emails, notice also that Mark offered the opportunity for linda to speak with him directly by way of a call, which may be a more appropriate or comfortable venue for either party.