Barclays tightened his home working policy with the staff who were now to enter the office for an additional day per week.
The bank is the last company to make changes to its flexible working policy which has been largely in place from the cocovio pandemic, saying that it has recognized the importance of collaborating staff in the same place.
A service note was sent to 85,000 Barclays employees who said they should now enter the office three days a week instead of two.
The Front Office or the staff intended for customers, including investment bankers, must already be in the office five days a week.
Barclays has a hybrid work model in place for some time.
“We recognize the advantages of balanced the flexibility of colleagues with the importance of working together to collaborate in our physical locations,” said a spokesperson for the bank.
“Our minimum time requirements in the office vary between the fields of activity according to the nature of the work and the needs of the company.”
The stricter working rules of Barclays at home, reported for the first time by the FT, intervene after JPMorgan announced that the staff would be required at the office five days a week from March.
Earlier this year, Lloyds Banking Group said that office attendance would be taken into account when the premiums are decision for senior executives.
Lord Sugar, BBC show the apprentice star, said on Thursday that he wanted to see all workers in the workplace.
The 77 -year -old said he thought the problem was many young people “just wanted to sit at home”.
“I am a big defender to bring them back to work, because the only way an apprentice will learn is his colleagues,” he said.
Lord Rose, the former boss of Marks and Spencer and Asda, recently told the BBC that home work was part of the “general decline” of the British economy and that the productivity of employees suffered.
