As of 13 August 2026, AI can write a homeworking policy for your UK business.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your current employment contracts, staff handbook, data protection policy, equipment rules, expense rules and insurance documents, then record the business decisions requested in the prompt.
   2. Check current relevant guidance on GOV.UK about flexible working, health and safety, equality, employment practices and data protection, and save the pages you intend to use for checking.
   3. Paste the prompt and your completed business facts into a chatbot, then ask it to produce the policy and verification checklist without filling any [DECISION NEEDED] items itself.
   4. Resolve every [DECISION NEEDED] item with the person responsible for employment, operations, IT, data protection or insurance in your business.
   5. Compare every operational statement in the draft against your contracts, internal policies, insurance terms, equipment arrangements and actual management practice, then amend contradictions.
   6. Give the revised policy and the chatbot's flagged points to a UK employment solicitor for review where the policy affects contractual rights, flexible-working decisions, monitoring, equality, health and safety or personal data.
   7. Apply the approved changes, record the policy owner and review process, then send the final version to affected staff with a clear acknowledgement method.

   Prompt

   Draft a UK homeworking policy for [business name], a [business type] with [number or description] of workers.
   
   Use these business facts and decisions:
   - Who can work from home: [employees, workers, contractors or other groups]
   - Whether homeworking is permanent, hybrid, occasional or subject to approval: [details]
   - Who approves it and how requests are made: [details]
   - Expected working hours, availability and meetings: [details]
   - How performance, attendance and communication are managed: [details]
   - Equipment supplied by the business: [details]
   - Employee responsibilities for equipment, internet and workspace: [details]
   - Business approach to expenses: [details]
   - Health and safety process for home workstations and work-related accidents: [details]
   - Confidentiality, data protection, passwords, devices and secure connections: [details]
   - Monitoring, recording, location restrictions and use of personal devices: [details]
   - Insurance, tax, client visits and handling business documents at home: [details]
   - Equality, reasonable adjustments and caring responsibilities: [details]
   - Review date and who owns the policy: [details]
   
   Write a practical policy in plain British English with headings, numbered rules and a short employee acknowledgement. Separate mandatory rules from guidance. Do not invent business facts, legal duties, statutory rights, dates, amounts or approval processes. Where a decision or fact is missing, insert [DECISION NEEDED] and explain what must be decided. Identify clauses that need checking against current UK employment, health and safety, equality, data protection and insurance requirements. Do not present the draft as legal advice. At the end, provide a verification checklist with the exact business records, GOV.UK guidance or professional questions needed to check each flagged point. Do not cite a law or guidance source unless you are confident it is current, and state when a solicitor should review the policy.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.