Telecoms giant Nokia has become the latest company to embrace flexible working, with staff allowed to work up to three days a week remotely.
The Finnish company has drawn up new guidelines that will apply from next year, after asking employees for feedback during the coronavirus pandemic.
It said workers will get more flexibility for a three-day remote working structure, as well as more support for working from home.
Nokia said it would overhaul its office structure as a result, with up to 70% of space dedicated to teamwork and meetings, with less space set aside for individual desks.
Some offices, including those in Singapore, Dallas and Budapest, have already been rejigged, with more sites expected to undergo the changes this year.
Nokia has brought in the changes on the back of a company-wide survey at the end of last year. Of the 26,000 employees who responded, 91% said they had been equally productive working from home as they would have been in the office.
On average, workers said they wanted to be based at home two or three days a week, with more than 80% saying they still preferred to come into the office some of the time.
Pekka Lundmark, president and chief executive of Nokia, said: “While flexibility and respect have always been at the heart of Nokia, we want to give all of our people even greater choice and flexibility over their work, so we are accelerating our transition to become a fully hybrid global workplace.”
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