Boss of Uber rival Bolt vows to crack down on remote work to stop ‘insanity of people working from Bali’

Bolt, the Estonian rival to ride-hailing app Uber, is calling workers back to the office after its CEO decried his “disconnected” staff’s habit of working from idyllic destinations like Bali.

The taxi company has partly reneged on its flexible work policy, which it believes led to staff being scattered across the globe. Bolt’s 4,000 employees will now be required to make it into the office 12 days per month, equivalent to around three days per week.

In an internal email to staff obtained by the Telegraph, Bolt CEO Markus Villig said the group had been too complacent in how it recruited staff, particularly around where they lived and worked.

What’s really bothering the boss of Bolt, however, is the feeling that employees are effectively taking holidays on company time.

“We will stop the insanity of people working remotely from places like Bali. That is a vacation, not what we hired them to do,” he reportedly wrote.

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