LinkedIn - which is owned by Microsoft - had previously said last October that employees would be expected to work from the office at least 50 percent of the time after coronavirus restrictions are lifted.
The majority of LinkedIn’s 16,000 employees will be allowed to work remotely full-time, the company said Thursday, in a reversal of its previous policy.
However, workers who relocate from cities like San Francisco and New York to cheaper locales may have their pay docked based on local market rates, the company told Reuters.
LinkedIn tell its employees that they will be able to work remotely on a permanent basis, the company trusts its employees to do what's best for the company, CEO Ryan Roslansky said in a blog post on Thursday.
"We’ve learned every individual and every team works differently, so we’re moving away from a one-size-fits-all policy," Roslansky said in the post.
LinkedIn's plan reflects the fact that some 87% of its 16,000 full-time workers said they would still like to be in the office sometimes, Roslansky said in his post.
"We’re embracing flexibility with both hybrid and remote roles, expecting more of us to be remote than pre-Covid and removing the expectation of being in the office 50% of the time," he said. He continued: "We're continuing to invest in amazing workplaces for every day work and those times when our teams come together."
LinkedIn, like every other big company, shifted to a remote work situation because of Covid-19. But as coronavirus vaccines became widely available and transmission and hospitalization rates dropped, companies began to map out a return to the office.
