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An employee who claimed his workplace absence was weaponised as a disciplinary threat to his whole team has lost his psychological injury claim, after a commission found the employer's warnings were "entirely reasonable".

The Queensland business development manager for IT assets company APCD Pty Ltd sought workers' compensation for a psychological injury that he alleged was caused by an email his supervisor sent in May last year.

The employer denied liability, accepting the employee had suffered an injury but claiming this was caused by its reasonable actions with respect to discipline.

The NSW Personal Injury Commission heard that from November 2021 onwards, the employee's team received numerous emails about out-of-office work...