Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon has long been a critic of homeworking, describing the pandemic-related shift once as “an aberration”. This week he called time on the practice, scrapping most of the bank’s remaining Covid-19 restrictions for US employees in a bid to get as many as possible back into the office.
For more than two years companies around the world embraced remote work and hybrid home-office arrangements as infections surged and the death toll escalated.
But as summer comes to an end in North America and Europe, some of the biggest companies are making a concerted push to get people to return to the office. They range from electric carmaker Tesla, whose boss Elon Musk has demanded employees to be back at their desks 40 hours a week, to tech giant Apple and fitness company Peloton, which are both pushing for at least three days a week.