Our company said that this week cause if u dont appear in office the set number hybrid days they can take it away from you.
I nver signed anything that said it did but now they put out their it was an electronic acception of the hybrid working from home rules is this legal.
It seems to be becuase of the few deciding not to comply with the three days and staying at home all the time.
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I knew one place started requiring attendance, but all their good software engineers left. They rolled it back about 6 months later but it was too late and the good staff had gone.
If it’s not in your contract and and written policy said they could amend or withdraw at any time, yes it is.
You fight back by quitting.
I left my last role for a number of reasons, and their increasingly aggressive office stance (an office too noisy and too small for the teams to even work in) was just one of them. They’ve now insisted on 3 days in the office. And the teams are interviewing, quitting and calling in favours… There’ll be a complete exodus.
If they wanna be dicks they can be dicks to an empty office.
My current employer demanded 4 days on site from 1st August last year.
Unsurprisingly a load of great developers left shortly thereafter.
Then as of January 1st they introduced a “remote working allowance” of 15 days a year. So now we have to book remote working days and get them approved just like holiday.
Unsurprisingly a load more developers including myself are now leaving.
Too arrogant to learn from their mistakes.
I don’t think there is anything to stop a company asking for attendance in the office. Apart from all the devs leaving that is
I don’t know what would happen if it came to the courts or a tribunal. I think you might struggle to argue that hybrid working is an implied contract term, because the last pandemic restrictions were only lifted a few months ago (the requirement to self-isolate if you tested positive for the virus).
This time next year no one will be offering any kind of remote working. There’s no need for it now. We need to get people back in an office.
I thought it was just my industry forcing people back. Sadly this is a growing trend. With an upcoming recession they will force people back in as they know people can’t find alternatives. Then a few years will go by and it will just be normal again to go back into the office.
Employers over-hired when all of the free covid money was pumping up stock prices. Now that the party is over, companies that over-hired will lay off people for a while. Expect employers to be less accommodating for the next year or so, until all the layoffs are done.
If it is not explict in your employment contract, the employer probably has a right to make people work in the office.
Where does your contract of employment say you place of work is?
this is the most poorly written post I have seen in a while.
I don’t mind going into the office. I tend to go in more than mandated. We all used to be in 5 days a week a few years back. Saying that I only live about 8mins drive from the office so it’s not much of a Biggie for me.
They probably *can* do this contractually.
The question is, who sticks around. I have recruiters on my LinkedIn saying, “Love it when companies enforce office based, I get to buy a new car…”
The company I work did not have enough office space, so we have been “hot desking” and remote working way before pandemic.
I get the impression they would love to have us in the office more, but some of the new hires during the panic live too far for that to be practical. We are classed as hybrid , I generally go in the office twice a month
IANAL but my understanding of employment law is that a contract which binds both parties has to be signed by both parties, implicit agreement is not a thing.
Anything which varies your original employment contract is a new contract and I’d expect to be sent a copy to read and sign. See an employment lawyer, a group of you could club together to consult one to advise on this specific point as it applies to all of you equally.