WFH & long weekends | Boss claims staff want 'pop star' treatment - does he have a point?

Workers want to be treated like ‘pop stars’ over their desire to work from home and have shorter working weeks, a chief executive has claimed.

Christian Ulbrich, CEO of property giant JLL, also claimed working from home was “poisoning workplace relations” because it made conflict resolution more difficult.

Speaking to Bloomberg, Ulbrich said: “What’s happening is the labour market is so competitive that employees are being treated like pop stars so they feel like they can do whatever they want.”

He added: “The idea of flexibility is not to offer people a four-day weekend and three-day work week, it’s to tie that flexibility to your private life.”