Rollbacks on remote working are in full force. When Zoom – one of the businesses that profited the most from the homeworking boom – asked staff to come into the office two days a week, many saw it as a signal that the all-remote working life was coming to an end for those with more traditional office jobs.
Since then, HSBC, Lloyds and Amazon have all updated their hybrid-working policies in an effort to get people back to the workplace. But employees at many firms have been quick to voice their opposition to proposals that require them to work two or three days a week in the office. Elsewhere, LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr saw its staff quit en masse after issuing an ultimatum (although there are also other staff issues going on at the company).
In a bid to stave off employee dissent, which has regularly arisen in response to return-to-office mandates, some businesses have developed novel ways to make the workplace a desirable place to be. And the instigators of these creative solutions claim their efforts are paying dividends.