Sports Direct owner Frasers Group scraps home working

So-called "Frasers Fridays" was started as a flexible working policy in 2020.A spokeswoman said the firm believed people worked better in an office. Mr Ashley handed over the day-to-day running of his retail empire to his future son-in law, Michael Murray, in May.It is understood bosses at Frasers Group had been measuring the productivity of staff on Fridays since the start of the flexible working scheme and decided to pull people back into the office. The Chartered Institute of Management found in February that more than 80% of firms had adopted hybrid working - most since the pandemic. The institute said firms should embrace hybrid work as "Best practice". The UK government said in September 2021 that would like to give workers the right to request flexible working when they start new jobs from day one, and is reviewing more than 1,600 responses to a consultation that closed in December last year.

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