PwC threatens to sack staff who fail to come into the office

The company’s human resources head suggested that PWC would know the employees who refuse to work from the office.

Philipa O’Connor, the chief officer of the people in PWC, told the House of Labor Committee at the House of Lords that the accounting giant is ready to take a “disciplinary action” against the employees who Failure to comply with new rules Ask them to work from the office for at least three days a week.

Lord Fuller, a conservative counterpart, asked whether PWC had taken action against them Who refuses complianceIncluding by stripping employee rewards, restricting or dismissing promotional offers.

Ms. Okonor said that PWC has not punished any employees yet due to the lack of evidence, after it only started monitoring the attendance in the office in January.

However, she added: “Until we watch, the ability to get () the correct evidence to do any of the things that you hint on, I think we felt it was insufficient … Over time, we will look at it and we are dealing with our monitoring process.

“We feel that this is really important for the minority of the population that does not correspond to the equity agenda (PWC) … There is a very accurate balance that we must strike.”

This warning comes amid increasing concern among managers that domestic action on a large scale suffocates productivity. Jimmy Damon, CEO of JP Morgan, said that distant work “does not work.”

All major companies including Google, Barclays and WPP have provided strict Return policies to the office In recent months.

Ms. Okonor said that the private PWC data suggested that the employees who worked from the office were more productive and more involved in their work.

PWC, which employs 23,000 UK employees and has 19 offices across Britain, has presented a more strict hybrid work policy in January, through which employees must work from the office for a period of not less than three days every week.

The company had previously had a flexible work policy that employees could work from the office for only two to three days a week.

“This is, as with any other employment policy, which we look forward to following up with disciplinary procedures if required,” said Ms. Okonor.

The account “Big Four” told the employees in January that it would start monitoring the attendance of the office and start sharing the data they collect with them on a monthly basis.

Ms. Okonor said that the data collected so far suggested the employees who worked from the office more productive than the employees who worked from the home.

She said: “There is a truly clear relationship between the time in the office and the use of our people, and this indicates only for us … that we have reached this regard between reaching the office (and) more productive.”