As management efforts to cajole staff back to the office go, Google’s wasn’t subtle. Work permanently from home if you like, it told US workers la

Techies outmuscle bosses in arm wrestle over working from home

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2021-08-15 15:30:10

As management efforts to cajole staff back to the office go, Google’s wasn’t subtle. Work permanently from home if you like, it told US workers last week, but we may dock your pay.

Away from the Silicon Valley tech giants, such forceful policies are beyond imagination. Such is the demand for tech engineers that employers simply don’t have the clout.

Good coders are so hard to find that firms are adapting to suit their work-from-home wishes, not the other way around. As the chief executive of one major London financial technology company put it: “At the moment, software engineers can do whatever they want.”