Traders at firms who are pushing for a return to pre-pandemic working arrangements fear their company’s inflexibility will leave them at a disadvantage.

Though more than two-thirds of both service providers and fund management firms said they were moving to a flexible working model — defined as three days or fewer at the office — a sizeable number of firms are asking for traders to be in for four or five days a week, according to a survey conducted by Redlap Consulting 2021 for the Plato Partnership.