The Swiss banking giant UBS resisted the accompanying remote hawks such as JPMORGAN and Goldman Sachs, who ordered a complete return to the office. However, he took a leaf from another rival approach.
In the internal memorandulation on Thursday, first reported FineUBS told the staff that he would have to work from the office for at least three days a week. In addition, the bank told its 115,000 employees that they would no longer be able to work from home on Friday, followed by a consecutive Monday.
“Our working approach is focused on the flexibility office and we ask employees to be in the office for at least three days a week. Spending enough time in the office with colleagues encourages innovation, cooperation and productivity of the team, “said UBS spokesman said Wealth.
The approach is similar to that of Deutsche Bank last year, which, on the return of staff to the office, drew a a New line in the sand Ban on Friday and Monday.
Many workers operating according to the hybrid model decide to enter the office between Tuesdays and Thursdays, working distance on Mondays and Fridays. Friday has proven to be popular and among bosses and employees as a remote election day.
Hawkish voices in discussion of remote vs. The office claims that this trend has created a habit of lower productivity around the weekend because employees slow down on Saturday or are more slower on Tuesday. Manchester United co -owner Jim Ratcliffe ordered his staff back to the office Full time in May last year, when he realized that the e-mail activity was reduced on Friday when most employees were away.
One of the problems with companies like UBS is more happy to deal with space. Many companies left office space during the Coid-19 to reduce costs when remotely looked like a permanent solution.
UBS is no different. In London, the company consolidated staff in its HQ Broadgate, where it submitted a space during the amount of remote work, after also decided not to renew the lease on 1 Golden Lane. During this time, the company also integrated employees from the newly acquired Credit Suisse into its offices, putting further crumbs on space. The selection move between Monday and Friday should regulate attendance during the week.
The companies were also left with thousands of square meters of office space unused in the unpopular Mondays and Fridays.
The UBS -the move of balancing the office that works during the week is understood as a move to better manage your office space. Deutsche Bank gave the same reasoning last year, and the CEO of Christian said that the motivation “we spread our presence is more evenly during the week.”
The last policy introduced by UBS remains much more liberal than a group of group in the banking sector, the most important of which is JPMORGAN. The group is a full -time term of office, which began in March. But, however, staff regretted About inadequate space, poor Wi-Fi and associates.
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