Employers are insisting on more in-person work to help foster more collaboration and ensure new employees have an opportunity to learn on the job
Financial services firms, the federal government and other employers are increasingly taking a harder line on remote work, with more mandating their staff to come into the office a minimum number of days a week and others threatening to discipline or terminate employees if they refuse to do so.
For civil servants, the return to office started with executives being in the office three times a week. Now executives are required to be in the office a minimum of four times a week and civil servants at least three days a week. The move has sparked protests from one of the unions representing federal civil servants, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, which has argued that remote work increases productivity and improves work-life balance.
But as time passes and the health crisis eases, employers are becoming more prescriptive about the number of days workers are required to be in the office. In some cases, they are taking steps to enforce the in-person work. Telus spokesperson Brandi Merker said the company recognizes in-office work “represents an evolution to the way we’ve worked over the last few years,” and is offering generous voluntary-separation packages for anyone in the call-centre operation who makes the personal decision that this way of working doesn’t meet their needs.
The investment watchdog said its leaders work closely with their teams to co-ordinate their in-office days and ensure everyone is following their remote-work policy. In the national capital, about 85 per cent of City of Ottawa staff are required to be in the workplace every day and the remainder need to work on-site a minimum of two days a week, according to the city’s chief human resources officer Pamela LeMaistre.
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