'If you don't like it at United ...' Ratcliffe tells home workers 'to seek alternative employment'
The Guardian|May 09, 2024
Sir Jim Ratcliffe cited email traffic statistics to Manchester United staff as the basis for a ban on working from home and told them to seek "alternative employment" if they are not willing to come to club premises.
Jamie Jackson
'If you don't like it at United ...' Ratcliffe tells home workers 'to seek alternative employment'

United have had a flexible work-from-home policy since Covid but Ratcliffe signalled an end to this during an all-staff meeting held in person and via video call last week as part of his tour of Old Trafford and the Carrington training base. He informed the approximately 1,000 employees that email traffic dropped by 20% when one of his companies experimented with work-from-home Fridays, which he cited as the reason.

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