Deutsche Bank could soon allow most employees to permanently work from home two days a week, according to a Bloomberg report.
The two-day rule has emerged as the preferred plan for Germany's biggest bank during discussions about remote working over the past few months, according to people familiar with the matter who requested to remain anonymous, perDeutsche told Business Insider it was looking at a "hybrid model that will combine working from home as well as in the office," but that no decisions had been made.
Before the pandemic, the 90,000-person German bank, which has offices all over the world, only had a few thousand employees working from home. Since then, its systems and procedures have had toThe people told Bloomberg that the policy won't apply to all staff in the company, and regulatory questions still need to be addressed.The people said that it isn't yet clear how the bank will handle confidentiality issues when people are working remotely.
A Deutsche Bank spokesperson told Business Insider: "We are exploring what positive lessons Deutsche Bank can learn from the COVID-19 crisis about how we work as a bank in the future. "We are working on a hybrid model that will combine working from home as well as in the office," they said. "No decision has been made yet."