Axel Springer to mandate four days per week in the office

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner plans to mandate that all staff spend at least four days per week in the office.

Speaking to The Sunday Times, Dopfner said he was a long-standing advocate of flexible working, but: “During COVID, that got out of control because it became just an alibi to not work at all or isolate yourself at home and get paranoid.”

The majority of publishers and staff in the UK favor hybrid working, with most companies typically mandating only two or three days per week, according to Press Gazette research conducted in March.

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