Asda executive chair Allan Leighton has emailed the supermarket’s head office workers instructing them to prioritise Mondays and Fridays working in the office.
Although the supermarket requires employees to work from its office at least three days per week, it senior management are worried that most of its workers are prioritising their office days between Tuesdays and Thursdays, according to Retail Week.
Due to this, the chairman and his team are urging workers to spread out their days and prioritise Mondays and Fridays.
A source close to Asda explained that Leighton was encouraging head office staff to “flatten [working from the office] days out across the week” instead of “top-loading Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday, spread out to cover Monday and Friday as well”.
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An Asda spokesperson said: “We have a clearly defined hybrid working policy for home office colleagues of three days per week in Asda House or another Asda location.
“We are asking teams to ensure they have representation across the week in the office so that colleagues are always on hand to support our customers and stores.”
The move comes as a host of retailers have recently made changes to their hybrid working policies. Last month, John Lewis Partnership mandated that staff in its commercial teams spent more than half their week in its office or on-site.
Primark also recently informed staff in its product teams that they must be in the office four days a week from September.
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