Work place accommodation?
I’ve been at my company for three years and upon agreeing to join I let my manager know that I’d be unable to travel due to a health issue. I was told that would be fine as it was not part of my essential job function. My manager has since been laid off and I have a new manager. Additionally, I’ve been asked to step into a new role. It doesn’t appear that travel will be essential, but as a remote first employee, it’s usually somewhat on the table for big conferences and teambuilding. I haven’t communicated this to my new manager yet and want to make sure that I don’t get blacklisted as my problem is mental health related. Any advice on how to handle this?
That’s where I was planning on starting from, but I think to get an accommodation granted you have to get in the weeds which I obviously don’t want to do.
As far as stigma management goes, you’ll probably have better luck framing it generically as a “health issue” rather than “mental health issue”.