Amid a renewed return-to-office push, experts outline what your options are
CANADA, JUL 6 – Major Canadian banks including BMO, RBC and Scotiabank will require employees to work in-office four days weekly to boost collaboration and operations, reflecting a shift in labor market dynamics.
- Many companies in Canada are increasing in-office days for hybrid workers, leading to potential tensions with employers.
- BMO, RBC, and Scotiabank announced a shift to four in-office days per week, stating it improves operations and collaboration.
- Experts advise employees wishing to avoid return-to-office mandates to consider job changes, as strict policies are in place.
- Philippe de Villers noted that employers are exerting more control over work arrangements due to economic uncertainty.
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SURVEY - There is an increasing number of employers who are reducing the number of days of remote work. To the great dam of the employees, who would like a status quo.
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Tima Miroshnichenko, Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels , public domain. These days, the phrase “return to office” is as inescapable as “work from home” was circa 2020. Fortune 500 firms that were once remote workplaces are now publishing white papers and executive letters that argue the necessity of getting employees back into the office. Yet a March 2025 Gallup poll indicated that 93 percent of remote-capable workers (as in, workers whose …

Amid a renewed return-to-office push, experts outline what your options are
As the number of in-office days is set to increase for many of Canada’s hybrid workers, return-to-office mandates are setting the stage for tension between employees and employers.
The resistance to return to the office is not simply because of a desire not to do so, “it has to do with the transfer, the time and the cost worth it to return,” said Claudio Hidalgo, president of WeWork for Latin America. The executive refers to the current scenario in which the work models are still reconfigured, with an important tendency towards hybrid schemes. According to the IA and Presence Report: The new labor landscape, of PageGroup a…
Most recently, some large companies have made headlines by getting their staff back from the home office into the office. Ifo Institute has now investigated whether this is in the trend.
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