All the businesses ordering staff back in to offices as 2025 could spell end of working from home – your rights revealed
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MAJOR companies are hauling staff back to the office as they put a stop to post-pandemic hybrid working. From this month workers at Amazon will be forced to return to the office five days a week as the company clamps down on at-home work. In a message to employees in September Amazon CEO Andy Jassay said the decision would ensure the company is “better set up to invent, collaborate, and be connected enough to each other”.
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Previously regional leaders were allowed to determine how their teams worked. Amazon is not the only employer to drag workers back to the office. From January 1 Asda staff at its Leeds and Leicester offices must spend at least three days a week at their desks.
The “return to office mandate” is part of the supermarket’s plan to introduce “simplified ways of working”. It comes after the company has struggled with falling sales. It also announced a series of job cuts and plans to restructure. Both companies are the latest in a wave of employers forcing staff back to face-to-face work.
Meanwhile, last month BT told employees they would need to return to the office three days a week. A memo from chief executive Allison Kirkby said the company was instituting a “three together, two wherever” policy. Office-based staff were told that they would be “accountable” for following the rules.
