Barclays has tightened its work-from-home coverage with workers now required to return into the workplace for an additional day every week.
The financial institution is the most recent firm to make modifications to its versatile working coverage that has been largely in place because the Covid pandemic, saying it recognised the significance of workers collaborating in the identical place.
A memo was despatched to 85,000 Barclays staff that stated they’d now want to return into the workplace three days every week as an alternative of two.
Entrance workplace or client-facing workers, together with funding bankers, are already required to be within the workplace 5 days every week.
Barclays has had a hybrid working mannequin in place for a while.
“We recognise the advantages of balancing flexibility for colleagues with the significance of working collectively to collaborate in our bodily areas,” a spokesperson for the financial institution stated.
“Our minimal time in-office necessities fluctuate between enterprise areas relying on the character of labor and desires of the enterprise.”
Barclays’ tighter working-from-home guidelines, first reported by the FT, come after JPMorgan introduced workers can be required within the workplace 5 days every week from March.
Earlier this 12 months, Lloyds Banking Group stated workplace attendance can be taken into consideration when deciding bonuses for senior executives.
Lord Sugar, star of the BBC present The Apprentice, stated on Thursday he desires to see all staff again within the office.
The 77-year-old stated he thought the issue was plenty of younger individuals “simply wish to sit at residence”.
“I am an amazing advocate of getting them again to work, as a result of the one means an apprentice goes to be taught is from his colleagues,” he stated.
Lord Rose, the previous boss of Marks and Spencer and Asda, lately informed the BBC that residence working was a part of the UK economic system’s “normal decline” and staff’ productiveness was struggling.