“As we move into the fall, I’m asking our leaders and colleagues to come together more often in person,” he said.
Although McKay’s statement did not specify how frequently workers will be required to go to the office, Rafael Ruffolo, a spokesperson for Royal Bank, said in an email that hybrid arrangements will require working in person twice or three days a week for most of the office employment.
Some teams and regions currently follow these procedures, and the bank aims to implement any new policies by the end of September, according to the executive.
Companies all over the world have stepped up attempts to get more workers back to the workplace two years after the COVID-19 outbreak started. To restore normalcy, governments have also loosened regulations.
When the number of coronavirus infections in the nation began to decline last year, RBC, the largest lender in Canada, began bringing employees back to the workplace. In just the last six months, a large number of financial firms in Canada have been regularly bringing employees back to the workplace.
