NatWest said its staff were spending one or two days in the office, on average.Ĭitigroup, the US bank, has reportedly started monitoring the office attendance of its 12,500 UK staff, most of them in its Canary Wharf headquarters, who are expected to come in at least three days a week.
Photograph: Kevin Coombs/Reutersīy contrast, other firms such as NatWest Group and the car insurer Admiral do not mandate days in the office. From October, hybrid working at HSBC UK will mean colleagues spending typically three days a week in an office or with clients.” skip past newsletter promotionĬitigroup has reportedly started monitoring the office attendance of its 12,500 UK staff. A spokesperson said: “We have been clear from the outset that hybrid working would evolve to ensure we are serving our customers in the right way. Similarly, HSBC has told its 24,000 staff in the UK that it wants them in the office three days a week. I don’t believe we will return to five days of working in the office”, apart from certain roles. This should make the main floor “much busier and buzzier”, although he added: “Hybrid working will continue. As part of the changes, Carnegie-Brown wants representatives from all 85 insurers that are members of the market to be present throughout the week on the main ground floor. Lloyd’s closed its underwriting room last month to revamp it, installing better technology, seating and lighting, and will reopen it next week. Lloyd’s of London is revamping its underwriting room and wants insurers’ staff to be present on the ground floor. He said he wanted to see people working in the Lloyd’s building in the City at least three days a week – and not just Tuesday to Thursday – to avoid a situation where people were taking “long weekends” every week, as he worried that Mondays and Fridays were not properly covered for clients. “There is an underlying trend towards a greater number of your working days being in the office rather than remotely … across insurance, asset management, banking, the US and the UK,” said Bruce Carnegie-Brown, the chair of Lloyd’s of London, the world’s biggest insurance market. This mirrors changing working patterns elsewhere in the City. Our colleagues clearly value working side by side, collaborating and meeting regularly in person, and this experience is leading more to come back, more often.”Īviva has also dropped its parking charges in Norwich, Birmingham, Sheffield and its other sites in the UK, with the exception of London, to help staff with the rising cost of living and encourage their return to the office. The shift happened after the Aviva chief executive, Amanda Blanc, decided to include senior managers’ ability to get their teams back into the office in their end of year performance assessment, on which bonuses would be based.ĭanielle Harmer, the chief people officer at Aviva, said: “The majority of our people are now back in the office for the majority of the week. Aviva said the number of people who came in to the office had risen every month this year.
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