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Barclays has tightened his demands for work from home, making her the latest company that will reconsider his hybrid work policy from the end of Pandemia Coid-19.
The Bank, based in the UK, has announced stricter hybrid working requirements and asked most of its 85,000 employees to enter the office an additional day of the week, according to a letter sent to the staff on Tuesday.
As part of the change, the bank has increased its minimum request to visit the office for three days a week, compared to two days a week, to people who are familiar with a correspondence. Some employees are expected to work more than the minimum in the office.
Most employees of bankers with clients, including investment bankers, have already come five days a week, one of the people said.
Spokesman for Barclays He said: “In Barclays we recognize the benefits of balance of flexibility for colleagues with the importance of working together on cooperation in our physical locations. Our minimum time in the requirements of the Office differs between business areas depending on the nature of the work and the needs of business. “
The Barclays move comes after JPMORGAN told the staff earlier this year that they would have to return to the office five days a week starting from March.
European banks are mostly more relaxed because of hybrid work than their peers of the US, but have been questioning their policies in recent months. The main managers of Wall Street were among the most critical ones The staff working outside the office, with David Solomon Goldman Sachs once called work from the home “aberration”, and Jpmorgan -ov Jamie Dimon described himself as a “skeptic”.
Lloyds Banking Group said earlier this year that he would consider visiting the senior executives at the bonus assignment because they tried to encourage them to give an example for younger staff.
The WPP British Advertising Group also said this month that more than 100,000 people had to return to work in the office this month At least four days a week. Other UK companies that pierce the rules for work from home include PWC, Santander and ASDA.
