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Fitness for Duty Evaluation for Remote Employees

Stephan M. Carlson, MD, MBA, FAPA · Employment and Fitness

Short answer: a fitness for duty evaluation for a remote employee must establish essential-function capacity from collateral sources and documented work output, because the in-person behavioral record supervisors once supplied is largely absent. When a claimant works from a spare bedroom, the usual proof of impaired workplace functioning—what supervisors and coworkers saw day to day—largely disappears. The forensic challenge is to assess essential-function capacity without the contemporaneous behavioral record that traditional fitness opinions were built on. Why remote and hybrid arrangements change the question A psychiatric fitness-for-duty or disability opinion has always turned on a comp

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