突发！普华永道和德勤英国将密切监控员工出勤情况

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普华永道英国密切监控员工在办公室工作时间

根据英国《金融时报》的一篇报道，英国跨国专业服务公司普华永道(PricewaterhouseCoopers)正在英国对混合型工作实施更严格的政策——从明年1月1日起，员工被要求每周至少三天时间在自己或客户现场工作。简而言之，公司希望员工将60%的工作时间放是在办公室。

为了促进员工现场办公，公司决定密切跟踪员工的出勤情况。

普华永道英国管理合伙人Laura Hinton在给普华永道26,000名员工的一份备忘录中写道：“将从明年1月份开始，员工共享他们的个人工作地点数据，以确保新政策在公司内部得到公平和一致的执行。”

自疫情以来，员工们的工作地点一直享有很大的灵活性。此前该公司要求员工每周需要到办公室工作两到三天，但这一规定并未被普遍遵守。现在，公司严格要求员工每周需要到办公室工作三天，目的是鼓励团队之间更多的合作和更好的联系，希望以此为客户提供更好的服务。

Hinton在给《卫报》的一份声明中说:“面对面工作对于我们这样的人才密集型企业至关重要，新政策将我们的工作周平衡点倾向于与客户和同事在一起。鉴于我们对客户服务、辅导以及学习和发展的关注，这对我们的业务和员工来说都是正确的。同时，我们继续通过混合工作模式提供灵活性。”

违反三天工作制的员工将被要求解释原因。普华永道的一位发言人表示:“我们希望能够在采取任何纪律措施之前达成非正式解决方案。”

而对此项政策的发布，很多小伙伴表示不理解并发表自己的看法！

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德勤英国监控未经允许在国外工作的员工

英国《电讯报》(The Telegraph)近日报道称，德勤英国监控未经允许在国外工作的员工。

“四大”咨询巨头德勤正在访问一些员工的互联网活动数据，检查员工是否在未经管理人员许可的情况下在海外工作。

这一举措出台之际，公司正努力应对员工未经同意在国外工作的问题。

据悉，德勤不会跟踪员工或定期监控他们的位置，但当公司数据被英国以外的偏远地区访问时，德勤会收到通知。

在这种情况下，公司可以通过员工的IP地址来确定他们的位置。

据一位知情人士透露，德勤分析IP地址只是出于安全目的，并确保远程工作人员没有违反任何海外税收、监管或客户义务。

疫情爆发后，企业提供了灵活的“在任何地方工作”的福利，现在却难以限制在全球各地搬迁的员工。

这可能会给公司带来法律问题，公司可能要为在另一个司法管辖区远程工作的员工纳税，如果他们被驱逐出境，还可能与移民当局发生冲突。

然而，德勤的一位顾问辩称，该政策并非“不合理”。他们表示，该公司“非常通融”，允许员工非常灵活地工作。

他补充说:“如果你未经许可就出国，我认为这违背了德勤给予员工的信任，所以我认为在某些情况下需要这种可见性是公平的。”

德勤允许其英国员工选择每周去办公室的次数，并在2022年推出了一项新政策，允许英国员工每年在国外工作20天。

上述政策的申请取决于员工是否有权在偏远地区工作，并满足税务和法律方面的考虑。

德勤全球人才流动咨询团队副总监Cyrus Davami此前曾表示，“我们的理念是在尽可能多的情况下对员工的申请批复‘可以’。”

他说，远程办公政策的部分目的是为了在人才竞争日益激烈的情况下吸引和留住人才。

原英文报道如下：

The consultancy PwC has told its employees it is going to begin tracking their working locations to ensure that all workers spend “a minimum of three days a week” in the office or at client sites.

In a memo sent to its 26,000 UK employees, the big four accounting firm announced that it will start monitoring how often employees work from home in the same way it monitors how many chargeable hours they work.

The clampdown on remote working, requiring partners and staff to spend 60% of their time with clients or in the office, will take effect from January. PwC described its new stance as a “shift” from a “hybrid working balance” towards “more in-person work”.

Each worker will be sent information about their “individual working location data” every month and this data will also be shared with employees’ career coaches at PwC, according to the Financial Times.

“We will start sharing your individual working location data with you on a monthly basis from January, as we do with other data such as chargeable hours,” managing partner Laura Hinton informed the employees in the memo. “This will help to ensure that the new policy is being fairly and consistently applied across our business.

“We all benefit from the positive impact of a hybrid approach, but the previous guidance of at least two to three days a week was open to interpretation.” Staff were previously expected to spend two to three days in the office or with clients.

In a statement to the Guardian, Hinton said: “Face-to-face working is hugely important to a people business like ours, and the new policy tips the balance of our working week into being located alongside clients and colleagues.

“At the same time, we continue to offer flexibility through hybrid working.”

Employees who breach the three-day policy will be asked to explain why. “We’d hope to be able to reach a resolution informally before going down any disciplinary route,” a spokesperson for PwC said.

Earlier this year, rival firm EY began reviewing the swipe-card entry data collected by its turnstiles to track how often employees were coming into the office.

Deloitte monitor staff logging in from abroad amid crackdown on remote work

Londoners now work just 2.7 days a week in the office on average and have been slower to return to the office than those in other global cities such as Paris, Singapore and New York, research by the Centre for Cities thinktank revealed earlier this week.

Deloitte is monitoring the location of UK employees logging in from abroad amid a crackdown on staff flouting working-from-home rules.

The “big four” consulting giant is accessing some workers’ internet activity data to check if they are working overseas without the permission of their managers.

The move comes as businesses grapple with staff secretly logging in from more glamorous locations abroad without consent.

Deloitte is understood to not track its employees or routinely monitor their locations, but is notified when the firm’s data is accessed from remote places outside of the UK.

In these cases, the firm can pinpoint the employee’s location using their IP address, a unique string of numbers assigned to devices such as work phones and laptops connected to the internet.

Deloitte only analyses IP addresses for security purposes and to ensure that remote workers are not breaching any overseas tax, regulatory or client obligations, according to a person said to be familiar with the matter.

It comes as businesses which offered flexible “work from anywhere” perks after the pandemic now struggle to keep a lid on workers who relocate around the globe.

This can lead to legal problems for employers, who could be liable to pay taxes for staff working remotely in another jurisdiction and risk clashing with immigration authorities if they are then deported.

However, one Deloitte consultant defended the policy as not “unreasonable”. They said the firm was “hugely accommodating” and allows employees to work very flexibly.

He added: “If you’re abroad without permission, I think that is a breach of the trust that Deloitte gives its employees, so I think it’s fair to have that visibility should it be needed in some circumstances.”

Deloitte allows its UK workforce to choose how often they come into the office each week and in 2022 introduced a new policy allowing UK employees to spend 20 days working abroad per year.

Requests are made subject to whether employees have the right to work in the remote location and meet tax and legal considerations.

Cyrus Davami, associate director in Deloitte’s global talent mobility consulting team, previously said that the “philosophy is to say yes in as many cases as possible”.

He said the remote working policy is partly designed to help attract and retain workers amid increasing competition for talent.

It comes as members of the big four increase surveillance efforts to monitor office attendance and subsequently pursue employees working from home too much.

PwC last week warned its 26,000 employees in the UK that the firm will begin tracking their locations in a wider crackdown on office attendance.

The professional services giant said that it will begin sharing “individual working location data” with employees and their career coaches from January, according to reports.

Staff were also told that they must spend at least three days per week either at the office or from client sites.

It is understood that PwC will monitor employees’ locations using their office swipe card data, following a similar approach adopted by rival big four firm EY at the start of the year.

Deloitte declined to comment.

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