Asset Management

City fund groups stick with hybrid work after BlackRock calls back senior staff full time

Most asset managers are maintaining policies that require staff to be in the office at least three days a week

BlackRock’s requirement for managing directors to attend the office five days a week is at odds with some of its peers in the City
BlackRock’s requirement for managing directors to attend the office five days a week is at odds with some of its peers in the City Photo: Simon Dawson/Getty

Some of the City’s biggest fund management groups including Jupiter, Aberdeen and L&G are maintaining the status quo with their hybrid working policies, despite BlackRock’s move to call back some of its staff to the office five days a week.

BlackRock has asked around 1,000 managing directors globally to return to the office full-time, putting the world’s largest asset manager at odds with the majority of its fund management peers.

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