Disney chief executive Bob Iger has this week told all Disney employees currently working from home to come back into the office four days a week.
Bob Iger’s view on Disney staff “hybrid working” was that face-to-face collaboration was key to "a creative business like ours".
After the Covid-19 pandemic, working from home proved to be so popular that many firms adopted a hybrid working policy, where staff could share their working week between stints in the office, and days at home.
However, some businesses have taken a different view and are requesting workers come back into the office for the majority of the working week.
Here is a round-up of some of the major companies and businesses that have turned their back on home working and want their employees to return to the office for at least four days a week.
Disney
The news was delivered by the Disney boss in a memo sent to staff this week which said he expected hybrid workers to treat "Monday through Thursday as in-person workdays" and expected this to start in March this year.
BBC reported that the memo said: "Nothing can replace the ability to connect, observe, and create with peers that comes from being physically together, nor the opportunity to grow professionally by learning from leaders and mentors.
"It is my belief that working together more in-person will benefit the company's creativity, culture, and our employees' careers."
Tesla
Tesla's founder Elon Musk has frequently made his feelings clear about staff working from home - spoiler alert, he isn't a fan.
In June 2022, the automotive company boss sent out an email to all employees telling them they were expected to be working from a Tesla office at least 40 hours per week.
If staff did not want to do this, then Musk said they should depart from the company.
In his email to staff, he said "the more senior you are the more visible must be your presence" and if people did not show up then Tesla will "assume you have resigned".
He then went on the explain went on to explain if there are certain exceptions to the policy he will review and approve those directly.
Goldman Sachs
The bank's CEO David Soloman has been very open about his dislike for remote working throughout the pandemic saying that the practice inhibits relationship building and growth and that the bank's strength came from its network of staff collaborating together.
In March 2022 he ordered Goldman Sachs's 60,000 worldwide employees, including its 6,000 UK staff, to return to the office five days a week.
In October last year, speaking to CNBC, the Wall Street boss said around 65% of the bank's staff were now working in the office each day, which is only a 10% reduction from the 75% figure the bank said was in the office before the pandemic.
Twitter had originally operated with a hybrid working policy and a lot of its staff worked remotely from anywhere they wanted even before the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, after the Elon Musk takeover last year, the new CEO announced that all Twitter staff needed to be working from the office for at least 40 hours a week, which mirrored the message he sent to Tesla employees.
Musk said in an email to staff that remote working would only be allowed if someone has a "specific exemption" and company managers would need to send the exception lists to Musk himself to approve.
Snap
Snap is the parent company of the social media platform Snapchat and in November last year told its staff that they were required to be working from the office 80% of the working week, this equates to around four out of five days.
The tech firm sent an email out to staff to inform them of the new working policy which is set to come into force at the end of February this year.
The news of Snap's stricter in-office policy was first reported by Bloomberg, which cited an internal memo from CEO Evan Spiegel telling employees they may have to "sacrifice" some amount of "individual convenience" but it will benefit "our collective success."
