Spotify rules out allowing workers to return to the office: “We are not going to treat adults like children”

The terrible time of the pandemic COVID-19 It’s already happened. Companies that had opted for teleworking are bringing their employees back to the offices, including some technology companies; however Spotify has marked distance from these.

Amazon, Dell, Meta and other well-known companies are bringing back their employees and continuing a campaign against this employment alternative. For Katarina Berg, Spotify’s director of human resources, this is not an option.

On the contrary, he has pointed out that forcing them to return to an office is treating them like children. . “You can’t spend so much time hiring adults, and then treat them like children,” said the manager on a website called Raconteur, reports Xataka.

“We are a company that has been digital since its birth, so why shouldn’t we give our people flexibility and freedom? “Work is not a place you arrive at, it is something you do,” he added during the interview.

According to the report, the only presence requirement that Spotify imposes is one week a year, for staff integration.

On the other hand, the board did show concern about the conditions of remote work. In 2023 they also faced three rounds of layoffs that affected 17% of their workforce.