Some workers are so unhappy about returning to the office that they're playing a legal card—asserting that they have a disability which necessitates that they work from home full-time, employment attorneys say.

"Many are arguing Covid-related reasons, but it doesn't have to be [Covid-related]," said David Barron, a member of the law firm Cozen O'Connor in Houston. "It could be some other type of disability that would warrant a reasonable accommodation to work from home." Workers seeking disability accommodations are relatively rare, attorneys say, but nonetheless reflect the strong resistance that a sizable slice of employees are showing to any in-the-office mandates.