The ridesharing company will donate to its global office workers have the option of applying for work entirely remotely or choosing from a list of other offices instead of their pre-pandemic location, the company’s human resources director Nikki Krishnamurthy said on Tuesday in a statement. blog post.
It’s a stark reversal for Uber and highlights the challenges for Silicon Valley’s biggest companies – who built the products that enabled remote working for many households throughout the pandemic – to strike the right balance. of telecommuting with their employees as the pandemic abates.
Like Uber, Google initially announced it would force workers to return to their offices before the pandemic a few days a week to relax that policy later by allowing employees to request permanent remote work or change their office location.
But Krishnamurthy said on Tuesday the company continued to seek feedback from its workers and wanted to offer more flexibility in determining the “right long-term model” for post-pandemic life. “While we always believe in the value of in-person collaboration and the community that is built, we also appreciate that our employees have the choice of deciding where they want to work when they are not in the office,” he said. -she stated in the blog. .
When asked if there had been a rejection of the original remote work policy, Uber spokeswoman Lois van der Laan told CNN Business that the updated guidelines ” aimed to find an approach that works for as many current and future employees as possible ”.
