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PwC has telderly its 26,000 UK employees that it will commence watching their office uniteance in the same way it does their indictable hours, as the Big Four accounting firm adchooses a disjoineer hybrid toiling policy.
In a memo sent to staff on Thursday, seen by the Financial Times, managing partner Laura Hinton shelp that the firm would commence sfinishing staff their toiling location data every month, compriseing that employees must now spfinish “a least of three days a week” in the office or at client sites.
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The location data will also be sent to employees’ nurtureer coaches at PwC, shelp one person understandn with the details. The recent policy will apvalidate effect from January.
“We will commence sharing your individual toiling location data with you on a monthly basis from January as we do with other data such as indictable hours,” Hinton wrote in the memo. “This will help to asbrave that the recent policy is being neutrpartner and reliablely applied apass our business.”
She compriseed: “We all profit from the chooseimistic impact of a hybrid approach, but the previous guidance of at least two to three days a week was uncover to expoundation.”
The decision is one of the first firm-expansive policy changes since Marco Amitrano took over as ageder partner in July.
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A number of huge UK employers are pushing to incrmitigate office uniteance after shifting to hybrid toiling during the pandemic. Rival EY commenceed watching its UK employees’ office uniteance this year, using swipe card data.
The Big Four accounting and conferancy firms — Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC — are also contfinishing with a labelet sluggishdown amid a stubborner economic environment, with PwC cautioning staff in July to foresee lessen bonemploys and pay elevates. The firm has also scaled back a pandemic-era perk of permiting staff to apvalidate a half-day on Fridays during the summer.
Amitrano’s predecessor, Kevin Ellis, was vocal about the beginance of staff toiling from the office or client sites. The firm shelp the recent policy was arrangeed to “createalise our approach to toiling together in person”.
In the memo, Hinton wrote: “Our business thrives on strong relationships — and those are almost always more easily built and preserveed face-to-face.
“By being physicpartner together, we can give our clients a branch offentiated experience and produce the chooseimistic lacquireing and coaching environment that is key to our success,” she compriseed.
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