Boss of electronic goods store AO World bans hybrid working and warns staff that doing job from home risks their roles being outsourced overseas
- AO World chief executive John Roberts said hybrid working is banned
- He told the electronic goods seller’s staff their jobs could be sent to Bangalore
The boss of electronics and white goods seller AO World has warned that staff working from home could find their jobs outsourced overseas.
John Roberts also told the Bolton-based retailer’s 3,000 employees that ‘hybrid working’, when staff come into the office only intermittently, was banned.
‘Working from home, you might as well be working abroad, which is only a step away from outsourcing,’ he said, warning that cheaper workers could be sourced in places such as Bangalore in India.
Home working and coming into the office intermittently were popular during the pandemic.
But as Covid restrictions eased, some maintained their working habits, fuelling the rise of so-called TWaTs — those who come to the office only on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
AO World chief John Roberts (pictured) has said staff who work from could see their jobs outsourced overseas
The company boss said hybrid working is banned and told staff his company would decide who is allowed to work from home
Roberts said his company would decide which of its staff could work from home.
In February, Amazon boss Andy Jassy said the online shopping giant would insist that corporate staff should be in the office at least three days a week.
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