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Unilever Plc (LON:ULVR) CEO Alan Jope has said his workers will never return to the office for five days a week, terming the process an old fashioned one.
- Jope said the company is experimenting with different working patterns after coronavirus transformed modern working life.
- Working pattern changes are expected for most of its 150,000 global employees, of which 7,000 are in the UK.
- Jope said the company had asked its workers to get inoculated against Covid-19, though it hasn’t yet been made mandatory.
- He added that staffs across western Europe and North America might not return to work until at least April. Then after the company would use a “hybrid modal” of working between homes and offices.
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- However, he also emphasised that the company is willing to return to office as work from home leads to a slow erosion of social capital, preventing colleagues from meeting each other in person.
- In most of Unilever’s main markets, office staff started working from home and have been doing so till now, an indication of how the pandemic is going to transform modern working life.
- The company’s New Zealand staff are trialling a four-day week, that makes it one of the biggest companies to consider lowering the hours of work for its employees.
- On 14 January 2021, the stocks of Unilever Plc (LON:ULVR) traded marginally lower by 0.14% from its previous closing, hovering at around GBX 4,346.00 at 08:47 AM GMT+1.
