Companies hold parties, start regular social programmes to get workers back to the office

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SINGAPORE - In the first week of May, software company Workday held a welcome back party for its 130 employees with food and drinks, as well as kicked off a weekly Thursday Happy Hour at its office in

the Central Business District - an area which has sprung back to life in recent weeks. Employees who came to work also got a free lunch every day in April.

Mr Sharma said Workday will give employees the flexibility to choose when and how often they come into the office. CIMB Singapore head of human resources Jaime Rosario said the bank will also throw a breakfast and organise games for employees on the first Friday of every month. She added that the bank has permanently adopted hybrid work and allows for staggered hours and flexible three-days in office arrangements for certain roles.Real estate firm Guocoland has restarted a fruit distribution programme that it had in place before the pandemic began, to sweeten its employees' return.

At Guoco Tower in Tanjong Pagar, the company has started twice weekly workout sessions of piloxing and zumba for office workers, a spokesperson for GuocoLand told ST.GuocoLand will also resume a programme called Sweet Treats, where the company offers discount vouchers to its office tenants in Guoco Tower for the 49 food and beverage outlets and 19 retail shops in the building.

 

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