Working from home, UK legislation

[jonallport]

As users of the no.1, most flexible communications suite I though you guys might know the answer to this.

A couple of people where I work (me included) would like to have the hours we work at/from home count towards our working week. We want to avoid the pitfall of being classed as 'teleworkers' or similar as that would require the employer to do a risk assessment on my sofa and PAT test the toaster and kettle!

Does anyone know if there are different rules for people who 'do a few hours a week from the sofa' as opposed to those who 'have an office at home'. We do the work anyway, but we'd rather it counts towards something.

Thanks for any advice you may have.