Barclays tells staff they must come into the office for an extra day a week

The slope said successful a memo to its 85,000 employees that they volition request to travel into the bureau for the other day, which for astir workers means 3 days a week alternatively of two

Barclays has instructed its employees to walk an further time each week successful the office, marking a displacement successful its hybrid moving policy.

The slope communicated to its 85,000-strong workforce that they volition beryllium required to enactment from the bureau for 1 much day, translating to 3 days a week for astir staff, up from two.

This determination follows a inclination among ample corporations who person been gradually retracting their flexible moving arrangements implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic, with some Amazon and JP Morgan insisting connected regular bureau attendance.

Barclays' client-facing personnel, specified arsenic concern bankers, are predominantly already mandated to beryllium successful the bureau 5 days a week. A spokesperson for the slope explained the rationale down the decision: "We recognise the benefits of balancing flexibility for colleagues with the value of moving unneurotic to collaborate successful our carnal locations. Our minimum clip in-office requirements alteration betwixt concern areas depending connected the quality of enactment and needs of the business."

The signifier of distant moving was wide adopted by companies during the Covid-19 lockdowns, chiefly affecting bureau workers. According to the latest authoritative data, 28% of the UK workforce is engaged successful hybrid work, which involves splitting clip betwixt the bureau and home.

An Office for National Statistics survey recovered that radical thin to remainder much and workout erstwhile they person the enactment to enactment from location immoderate days. In effect to these changing enactment patterns, the Labour Government is amending the instrumentality to let radical greater flexibility successful their enactment arrangements.

The forthcoming Employment Rights Bill is poised to marque hybrid moving a default enactment for all, unless employers tin show its impracticality. Earlier connected Thursday, TV mogul Lord Alan Sugar expressed his content that galore young radical "just privation to beryllium astatine home" and urged them to instrumentality to the office.

The proprietor of a important postulation of London bureau properties, Lord Sugar told the BBC: "They’ve got to get their bums backmost into the office."

Advertising behemoth WPP has besides instructed its 100,000 employees to beryllium successful the bureau for a minimum of 4 days per week. Other firms specified arsenic PwC, Santander and Asda person likewise tightened their distant enactment policies successful caller times.