Wellbeing | Staff angered as employer cancels remote working

Worldwide banking firm BNY Mellon has ordered all UK staff to stop working from home, in a move employees have described as causing stress and personal problems – Financial News reports.

Staff at the $33tn (£24.91tn) company were previously allowed to work from home several times a week. However, new rules state they must be at their desks unless they have a strong reason not to be, such as illness or a family emergency.

Financial Times reports that the new policy, which is expected to affect several thousand staff, has angered staff – especially working parents. One employee said:

“It’s causing huge amounts of personal problems and stress in terms of managing work/life balance. It seems like it’s going back to 1980s/90s style presenteeism.”