Hey, boss: Don’t expect to see me 5 days a week
3 years, 7 months ago

Hey, boss: Don’t expect to see me 5 days a week

LA Times  

Decals on the floor inside an elevator show where to stand, as protection against the coronavirus, at Hudson Pacific Properties, a big office landlord in Los Angeles. Now there’s yet another culture issue that we’ve got to figure out.” A recent poll of 577 San Diego employers found that 64% said staff won’t be allowed to work from home full time post-pandemic. “We’re a digital marketing agency, and we used to advocate having employees come to our office in Irvine to work,” he said. Since then, however, the company has pushed the office restart date until September, “possibly,” Holbrook thinks, “for the younger employees who have been slow in getting vaccinated.” “I really don’t want to go back. “I didn’t have one-hour-plus commutes twice a day.” Holbrook said that his employer is working out a hybrid model that would combine office and remote work.

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Return to office policies: What makes them work?
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Return to office policies: What makes them work?

Salon  

When COVID-19 struck, millions quickly adapted to remote work, ditching the commute for home offices and discovering perks like flexibility, time saved and a better work-life balance. Related The shift to working from home has increased the number of hours Americans work "According to a Flex Index study, 79% of tech companies in North America allow employees to decide when …

Amazon's New Directive: Employees To Work In Office 5 Days A Week From 2025
3 months, 1 week ago

Amazon's New Directive: Employees To Work In Office 5 Days A Week From 2025

ABP News  

Starting next year, Amazon.com will implement a new policy requiring employees to work in company offices five days a week, a shift from the previously mandated three-day in-office schedule. Moreover, employees who frequently failed to adhere to the existing three-day office mandate were told they were "voluntarily resigning" and were subsequently locked out of Amazon's systems. Last May, employees at …

Amazon mandates 5-day work from office. Here’s what CEO Andy Jassy said on…
3 months, 1 week ago

Amazon mandates 5-day work from office. Here’s what CEO Andy Jassy said on…

Live Mint  

Amazon.com Inc. CEO Andy Jassy has revealed a significant organisational shakeup designed to streamline the company's management structure and bring employees back to the office full-time starting in January. The changes were announced in a memo to employees on September 16, with Jassy highlighting how Amazon's internal processes have become bogged down by unnecessary layers of management and bureaucracy, the …

The Companies Calling Workers Back to the Office Five Days a Week
10 months, 3 weeks ago

The Companies Calling Workers Back to the Office Five Days a Week

Live Mint  

UPS on Tuesday joined a small group of large companies pushing for a return to what has become an anomaly in American worklife: five days in the office. During contentious labor negotiations at United Parcel Service last year, union officials said drivers and warehouse staffers resented working in-person while office employees could stay at home. JPMorgan Chase issued a memo …

CEOs: Office returns non-negotiable
1 year, 3 months ago

CEOs: Office returns non-negotiable

BBC  

The CEOs drawing a hard line on return-to-office policies Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among the high-profile leaders taking hard lines on their employees' return to the office Throughout the past couple of years, many employers have been relatively lenient about office returns, even in stricter industries like finance and consulting. "There's been a shift among Fortune 500 …

US Workers Want 4-Day WorkWeeks But Only With The Choice To Work Remotely: Survey
1 year, 4 months ago

US Workers Want 4-Day WorkWeeks But Only With The Choice To Work Remotely: Survey

ABP News  

Workers and bosses in the US are not apprehensive about a four-day workweek, a survey claims. The survey states about 87 per cent of respondents expressed interest in a four-day workweek, while 82 per cent of the respondents agreed that widespread adoption of the same across the US will be successful. About 75 per cent of respondents noted that they …

Working from home becomes a once-a-week perk for some office goers
1 year, 6 months ago

Working from home becomes a once-a-week perk for some office goers

LA Times  

The entrance to Walt Disney Co. headquarters is seen from West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. It’s a form of RTO creep, as companies test what has emerged as the post-pandemic norm of two to three days in the office and fan the debate over remote work. BlackRock has said employees must be in the office four days a week starting …

Google Makes Work From Office Mandatory For 3 Days In A Week: All Details Here
1 year, 6 months ago

Google Makes Work From Office Mandatory For 3 Days In A Week: All Details Here

News 18  

Tech giant Google has revised its hybrid work policy, making it mandatory for employees to be in the office for at least three days a week. Google’s chief people officer, Fiona Cicconi, wrote an email to employees recently which included doubling down on office attendance. The note said the company will start including their three days per week as a …

Meta employees to soon work from office three days a week: Report
1 year, 6 months ago

Meta employees to soon work from office three days a week: Report

Hindustan Times  

Meta has ordered its employees to work from office three days a week from September 5, tech news site The Information reported on Thursday. The report added that the crackdown on remote work is part of the company’s broader push to work more efficiently amid a massive layoff of nearly 10,000 employees. We're also committed to continuously refining our model …

Will a four-day week get workers back?
1 year, 6 months ago

Will a four-day week get workers back?

BBC  

Will the four-day workweek get employees back in office? Yet, since beginning a four-day week in June 2022, Tyler Grange’s 100 workers with offices across six UK offices choose to work in person more often. Collaboration is often harder working from home – producing the amount of work required in a four-day week would be really difficult.” Crucially, says Ursell, …

The office is outmoded, but it will still survive
2 years, 2 months ago

The office is outmoded, but it will still survive

Live Mint  

For now, they are asking nicely. “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. It is possible that many people like to go to an office every day for various reasons that has nothing to do with work. But the point is that even artists …

The workers pushing back on the return to the office
3 years, 6 months ago

The workers pushing back on the return to the office

BBC  

The workers pushing back on the return to the office Getty Images Some companies want staff back in the office for more time than employees had anticipated. Apple’s pre-pandemic policies discouraged remote work, but post-Covid-19, employees are challenging what they called “a disconnect between how the executive team thinks about remote/location-flexible work and the lived experiences of many of Apple’s …

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