Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work has become a common reality for many companies. While the flexibility gave both employers and employees the ability to safely continue working and presented employers with a wider talent pool to hire from, remote work can pose difficulties that may not have been taken into account. As employees work from home in different states, the laws of the state where the work is performed, and not where the company is based, typically dictate employee rights, from an employee’s ability to review their personnel record to when they receive their final paycheck.
