As the global pandemic accelerates, we have seen a large number of technology companies consider remote work to be an option for their employees, even after a covid. Now Spotify is on board: ELFriday, the company announced the launch of its Work From Anywhere program, which will give the thousands of Spotify employees around the balloon the freedom to work wherever you want, and yet.
“A couple of years ago we discussed the future of work and its appearance and we have always concluded that globalizationaction and digitizationactions are drivers of a more flexible workplace, ”Spotify said in its announcement. “This is better for both the company and our people.”
The basic essence described in the Spotify human resources blog is this: With a manager approval, Spotify can combine and adjust their schedules to work completely from home, completely from the office or some combination of these two.
These employees will also gain more flexibility when deciding where they work from. If someone who is really looking for a little office happens to choose a regional setting that is not close to a 48 different Spotify offices in addition to a dozen countries, the company will establish them with a subscription to a coworking space somewhere nearby. That said, this is not permission to go anywhere in the world; Spotify notes in its announcement that there are “some limitations” on where employees can go, just because of “time zone difficulties and regional entity laws.”
“The ultimate goal of our new design approach is to ensure that employees have a place to focus, collaborate and create, whether it’s on a desk, in a conference room or in cafeteria spaces.” , explains the Spotify post.
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In explaining his justification behind the new program, the company added than its employees effectiveness “it can’t be measured by the number of hours people spend in an office, ”and that“ work isn’t something our people come to the office for, it’s something they do. “
While not all industries is able to offer this kind of flexibility that the technology sector has hugged the FMH lifestyle throughout the pandemic. Earlier this week, for example, the Salesforce cloud giant announced a policy change similar to Spotify, giving its tens of thousands of employees the option to stay completely away, totally in the office or a combination of both of you. This comes into the hands of other companies like Shopify, Twitter, i Square giving his employees have the option to continue working remotely for as long as they prefer, even after their offices have reopened. There is even an ongoing program Github project of collective resources keep track of the list of constant updates from tech companies that gives their employees the ability to work from home on a permanent basis. Bye now it’s nine o’clock, but we wouldn’t be surprised if this list gets longer.