Intel says that it’ll require workers to work from the workplace 4 days every week, a shift from the corporate’s present coverage.
CEO Lip-Bu Tan made the announcement throughout Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings name on Thursday. Previously, Intel allowed workers to do business from home two days every week, however Tan stated that adherence to the corporate’s hybrid work coverage has been “uneven at finest.”
“I strongly imagine that our websites should be vibrant hubs of collaboration that mirror our tradition in motion,” Tan stated. “When we spend time collectively in particular person, it fosters extra partaking and productive dialogue and debate. It drives higher and quicker decision-making. And it strengthens our reference to colleagues.”
The coverage change will go into impact September 1. Tan stated that native management will share “site-specific particulars” and “search [staff] enter on how one can create the very best on-site expertise.”
Intel, which is reportedly planning to put off as a lot as 20% of its workforce, is the newest massive tech firm to mandate a return to the workplace.
Amazon made headlines in 2024 when CEO Andy Jassy introduced that company workers should return to work within the workplace 5 days every week. Salesforce carried out a four-day-per-week coverage in October. And Apple moved to a hybrid setup in 2022.
Evidence is blended on whether or not working from the workplace bolsters productiveness. Research has proven, nonetheless, that return-to-office mandates harm worker satisfaction.
