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Citi hopes a ‘reset’ with hybrid schedules, Zoom-free Fridays will preserve bank’s ‘soul’

March 24, 2021

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With her memo, Fraser becomes the first CEO of a large, U.S.-based bank to embrace a hybrid schedule in writing. There will be exceptions to the three-and-two workday ratio, Fraser wrote. Some branch and data-center jobs, for example, can’t be performed remotely. Other positions, such as those supporting contact centers, would be fully remote.

“This is not just a scheduling exercise; we will be thoughtful about when we ask colleagues to be in the office together,” Fraser wrote in the memo, according to The Wall Street Journal. “The pandemic has stretched our capacity for innovative thinking, for solving problems. It has opened doors to new ways of working and shown that we are able to adapt to and even flourish amid adversity.”

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