HSBC considers ordering all staff back to office 3 days a week
Bank seeking to impose unified approach on sprawling global workforce
Bank seeking to impose unified approach on sprawling global workforce

Scrapping of international manager programme comes despite need for long-term employees schooled in bank’s culture

‘International Manager’ programme closed to new recruits as CEO Georges Elhedery reshapes Europe’s largest lender

Lender announced plan last year to use $3.2tn balance sheet to muscle into alternative lending market

When top executives work remotely, it becomes more difficult to drag everyone else to their desks

Proportion has increased from 27 per cent just two years ago, British Chambers of Commerce says

The bank scoured the globe for candidates only to choose the person already doing the job on an interim basis