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PwC tells employees it will use location data to police ‘back-to-office’ rule


PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) will start tracking where its employees in the United Kingdom work, in a bid to dial back its current work-from-home culture.

It said: “Our business thrives on strong relationships – and those are almost always more easily built and sustained face-to-face… By being physically together, we can offer our clients a differentiated experience and create the positive learning and coaching environment that is key to our success.” The Covid-19 pandemic triggered a workplace revolution that led to many companies around the world adopting a hybrid approach, allowing employees to balance office-based work with home life. Evidence collected by the CIPD, the professional body for the UK’s human resources industry, suggests that companies with a hybrid-working model generally rate the performance of employees working from home positively, according to Claire McCartney, the organization’s policy and practice manager.

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