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Seems like Linux might be a "reasonable accommodation".

• shadowgovt 4y ago
  It depends on what the employee is doing and where they do it. I work at a place that just cut support for desktop Linux in favor of going monoculture Mac (with Linux as server support and developer build machine connected via remote access). Their reasoning was pretty straightforward: every OS supported is a new set of security threat vectors to track and machines to maintain, and in their opinion for remote hardware, the tools they had on Mac were way easier to configure, monitor, and use than their Linux counterparts. Supporting one employee using one machine with another OS on it isn't a one-employee-support cost footprint; it's a "Linux team" cost footprint. If the security of the machine can be ensured through physical means, then it's probably fine, but if the employee takes the machine home, someone has to be responsible for configs, security patches, ensuring encryption is working, etc. on a whole other OS.
• LeifCarrotson 4y ago
  There's actually a case before the Supreme Court right now, Groff v. DeJoy, challenging the level of what constitutes a reasonable accommodation: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/groff-v-dejoy/ https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/groff-v-dejoy/ Currently, religious tolerance can be denied if it imposes more than a "de minimis" cost on the business, which in the above example was an employee's request to not be scheduled on Sundays.