BP has told at least 25,000 staff around the world that they will be expected to work from home for two days per week after the pandemic in a permanent shift to flexible working.
The oil major told its office-based employees to work from home after Covid-19 hit a year ago and in recent weeks told them that most will never return full-time to the office.
The new “hybrid” arrangements will apply to more than 6,000 of its staff in Britain, including more than 2,000 in central London.
BP said the change formed part of the modernisation of the company and that the plans would offer staff a “more flexible, engaging and dynamic way of working”.
The move comes as part of a restructuring and cost-cutting drive at BP that has seen about 10,000 office-based roles cut since last summer and is likely to lead to a significant reduction in office space. BP has sold its headquarters in St James’s Square, which housed about 500 people, and is leasing it back while it searches for smaller premises.
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BP plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world’s seven oil and gas “supermajors”
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