{"id":84418,"date":"2026-07-16T18:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/84418\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:47:37","slug":"barclays-further-tightens-wfh-rules-for-thousands-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/84418\/","title":{"rendered":"Barclays further tightens WFH rules for thousands of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barclays has further tightened the screw on working-from-home arrangements for its global employees, after the lender told all of its senior staff to come into the office four days a week.<\/p>\n

The bank is set to mandate employees into the office three days per week from October, up from a current two-day policy, according to a memo sent to staff last week.<\/p>\n

Barclays\u2019 employees globally received the memo with information specific to their country offices.<\/p>\n

The changes are expected to affect around half of the bank\u2019s 45,000 staff in the UK, including those in operations and technology functions.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of our colleagues who are not already working in the office three days will align with our broader approach across the bank,\u201d a spokesperson for Barclays told The Banker.<\/p>\n

Many of the bank\u2019s client-facing employees, such as its investment bankers, have already been attending the office five days a week.<\/p>\n

The change comes after the UK-headquartered bank ordered its managing directors to work from the office an extra day per week<\/a>, bringing mandated days for senior-level staff up to four days a week, as exclusively reported by The Banker.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur most senior leaders will spend an additional day in the office to support collaboration, decision-making and leadership visibility,\u201d Barclays said.<\/p>\n

The move comes as the number of remote and hybrid investment banking jobs<\/a> in particular being advertised in the US and the UK has fallen.<\/p>\n

Barclays\u2019 increased return-to-office mandate is in line with moves by other European peers, including HSBC and Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale, which are significantly increasing mandated office attendance.<\/p>\n

Santander told TSB employees last month<\/a> that they must return to the office on a stricter basis from next year to bring the bank in line with the Spanish lender\u2019s stricter working policy.<\/p>\n

JPMorgan, the largest bank in the US, told all employees to be in the office five days a week in March last year, while Goldman Sachs did the same more than 18 months earlier.<\/p>\n

Last year, Barclays sent a memo to some of its employees stating that they would now need to come into the office three days a week instead of two; however, not all staff were brought within the three-day remit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recognise the benefits of balancing flexibility for colleagues with the importance of working together in our physical locations. Our minimum time in office requirements vary by business area, reflecting the nature of the work and the needs of the business,\u201d a spokesperson for Barclays said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barclays has further tightened the screw on working-from-home arrangements for its global employees, after the lender told all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21264],"tags":[13173,3343,661,5],"class_list":["post-84418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barclays","tag-banking-markets","tag-barclays","tag-exclusive","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116931149361192438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}