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The company are within their right to ask people to come back to the office, people are free to quit if they don’t want to go to the office.
During Covid I had colleagues move hundreds of miles away from the office, but we were never on remote contracts, so, when asked to come back one day a month they were pissed off
Most back office staff are working with globalised teams. India, Poland etc. If your whole day is in calls, online you don’t need an office.
On one hand if you’re not on a remote contract then this can happen. On the other hand I don’t really see the point in the company enforcing it
The company i work for decided to close down a load of small offices and open a handful of larger offices in cities. Currently having to do a 2.5 hour commute (each way) 2 days a week.
They also sent out a message yesterday informing all their customers that they aren’t going to be paying interest on their accounts from February.
Wonder if they are in trouble. Response to the interest thing hasn’t been great so far!
That’s unfortunate. Enjoy trying to find new work in this climate so close to Christmas.
This is nothing new same happened to people I know who work at Nationwide Building Society and Barclays. To make a quick decision ad buy a house in the countryside where its not commutable isn’t a wise choice now. Those who chose to move to a cheaper area but still within 2 hours door to door commute did better as hybrid is here to stay.
I’m fully remote and after a year I have had to quit.
I’m lonely and demotivated, I feel no connection to the company or colleagues and my work output and quality has suffered. It’s given me anxiety and depression.
I know it works for some people but for me the only way I can get through the horrors of a work week is with some social interactions. And I’m an introvert who values alone time.
I see a hybrid work setup as fine, but I can definitely understand employers who want staff back a majority of time.
Digital bank yet they NEED offices? Makes me prefer ones with a physical branch…
The kicker is that they cheaped out on office space, so there’s no room for people to be in the office 10 days a month. Can’t have it both ways.
During covid many financial service and banking companies senior leaders talked about how Well people worked from.home…and now its mandated to return.
I’m yet to see a satisfactory rationale from any of the companies that have done this except for bland and disproven clichés.
Dispersed work forces make so much sense.
.for this that want it.
If we can get office workers out of the cities we reduce commuting, pollution, congestion etc of the cities which would ultimately bring down prices.
I don’t see the down side.
Covid made people assume everything was going to be different from now on.
Companies have multi year leases on office spaces.
The most ridiculous suggestion I’ve ever heard someone make is that their employer should close its main office in a large city (it had only moved in about 3 years before) and open a series of small regional offices dotted around, within easy commute for people. The company only wanted people in 3 days a week.
The person suggesting this wouldn’t need to worry about the commute anymore at least, because they would no longer have a job.
The whole wfh argument is a bit entitled for those of us who can. Bus drivers, cleaners, shop workers, factory workers etc can’t wfh. Nobody is interested in them though.
Hmm, customer satisfaction tanking, employee loyalty in the gutter. All after investors forced out the CEO and founder who built and maintained one of the best challenger banks in the UK to install a Harvard MBA corporate drone.
Good job investors!
How to push for redundancies without having to pay for redundancies… times times are literally here… Nothing has changed.. this isn’t about working in the office or from home
Looks like Starling may well go the way of Egg with this news.
I worked there in the late 90s early 00s and there was obviously no home working. When the bank started to fail (after they moved from being innovative to ‘how much money can we get for the shareholders’) us being in the office all the time didn’t ’improve synergy’ or make for ‘better team working’ since we were all the same people – it’s just the management got shitter.
Bringing people in from remote working isn’t going to improve anything, it’s just a shit management excuse.
For many companies they don’t want the good ones leaving but the reality is they likely want to get rid of most of them anyways so its a good way to clean the house
> We are considering ways in which we can create more space
So not only do you have to go into the office, but they’re going to cram as many people in as legally possible making it absolute hell.
It’s just a way of getting rid of staff without paying redundancy. Should be illegal but practically impossible to police.
They moved to a big office in Manchester and are getting buyers remorse I suspect
From the article it says that Starling have 3,231 employees, but the ‘staff are quitting’ story quotes a single person who resigned and refers to “some staff” leaving.
What is “some”? 10? 100? 1000?
So what is it, as a few staff leaving isn’t a story and is click bait.
If it was high hundreds then I would expect the story would be in the financial pages with details of how Starling was collapsing.