Great Britain: be it via yoga classes or free meals, businesses are trying to encourage a return to the office

In order to convince their employees to come back to on site work following 18 months of mandatory full-time teleworking, UK employers such as PwC, Goldman Sachs, and the BP oil & gas group are eagerly offering them ‘benefits’. Ranging from free ice cream and meals to special one-off bonuses, including gym membership fee payments, businesses across the UK have been enhancing initiatives to coax staff back to the office. Below is a review of the details of an incentive operation that does not yet seem to have convinced the rank and file.
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The most generous initiative is, without a doubt, that of the consultancy firm PwC which will offer a £1,000 bonus (€1,163.55) to its 22,000 UK employees in September. In April PwC switched employees to a hybrid work system in which they have to go to the office 2 or 3 days a week (c.f. article No.12455). However, this bonus has an incentive value since the group has invited its employees to spend it in particular in coming back to the office. This bonus ‘may help with commuting costs or-perhap

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