Nationwide rescinds ‘work anywhere’ policy and tells staff to come to office

Exclusive: building society overturns previous CEO’s policy, with employees asked to come in for 40% of their contract from January

Nationwide has told the 13,000 staff it had said would not be forced to return to the office when Covid lockdowns ended that they must start coming in from early next year for at least two days a week for most.

During the coronavirus crisis the UK’s biggest building society unveiled one of the most far-reaching flexible working policies, called “work anywhere”, telling all staff who did not work in its branches that it was “putting our employees in control of where they work from”.

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