CNA's weekly news podcast takes a deep dive into issues that people talk about at dining tables and along the office corridors. Hosted by Steven Chia and Crispina Robert.Tech giant Grab has told its employees to return to the office five days a week starting in December. This follows other MNCs such as Amazon. Reasons for returning to the office include the need for better collaboration and to drive productivity.
Crispina Robert, Steven Chia, Karen Teo from Quess, and Dr Issac Lim, founder of Anthro Insights. We on just the few who are thinking, okay, you know what? For the amount of money that we're spending on you guys, we need you to be accountable in the office at times. But for the vast majority, they still have flexibility?For the vast majority, it's probably worked for them.
With flexibility, we also open up the fields for people with disabilities and a different, non-traditional workforce - people who can work from home, but not necessarily come in the regular hours.I'm also guessing that the reaction to coming back into the office full time seems to be coming from a larger, younger population; many of them graduated during COVID, they may not have spent much time physically working in the office five days week.