Spotify is jumping on the bandwagon to a large extent with an announcement Friday that it will let its employees choose where they want to work, both because they prefer to go to the office or mostly stay at home and their geographical location in the world. Spotify calls the Work From Anywhere initiative and describes it as a ‘new way of collaborating with Spotifiers wherever they can think and create their best.’
“Through this distributed first mentality, we give employees the opportunity to choose a work mode – whether they prefer to work mostly at home or in the office – as well as their geographical location,” reads the company’s blog post. Spotify says it will implement the new options this summer, and the choice of how often, if ever, to return to the office will be decided by the employee in discussions with their manager and team.
As for the freedom to work with Spotify anywhere in the world, the company says it will allow employees to determine their location “with some restrictions on addressing time zone issues, and regional entity laws during the initial implementation of this program, “reads a more in-depth post on the company’s human resource blog. “If someone chooses a location that is not close to a Spotify office, we will support them through a collaboration space if they want to work from an office.”
Spotify’s decision comes on the heels of a Salesforce announcement earlier this week in which the cloud computer said it would give employees the choice to work mostly from home in future, and also give workers more flexibility around their daily care schedules. of children or pay attention to personal matters. Numerous other large technology companies, including Facebook and Microsoft, have also announced major commitments to remote work, allowing employees to make their new COVID work environments permanent from now on, if they so choose.