Remote | RBS shares 'cautious' plans for work until 2021

When UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson enforced a nationwide lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic back in March, many businesses treated the move to remote working cautiously.

The concept of remote working had been steadily growing in popularity across the globe – around a 140% increase since 2005, according to Global Work Statistics – yet many felt that, whilst statistically the movement was positive for both businesses and workers in increasing work-life balance and productivity levels, the move to a remote working arrangement was simply too left-field.

However, whilst the pandemic has caused financial, health and wellbeing devastation across the UK, the time spent in a period of mandatory lockdown did prove that companies could not only operate but actually thrive when staff didn’t enter an office. For this reason, firms such as RBS are leading the way in installing permanent change as a result.

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According to reports ascertained by the Evening Standard, a memo was sent to all staff detailing the decision to allow all 49,000 staff under the employment of RBS in the UK to continue to work from home until at least 2021.