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    AIB rows-back slightly on hybrid work push

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    By Irish Independent

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    AIB rows-back slightly on hybrid work push

    In an update to staff on Tuesday, the bank outlined updated guidance on changes to its hybrid working policy for staff who do not have to be in branch or at other front line posts.

    The bank said the new policy reflects feedback from the Financial Services Unions (FSU), which represents many staff at AIB.

    Under the new policy, staff who work hybrid hours will be able to working at one of AIB’s 47 Local Working Hubs as an alternative to attending their base location on one of their weekly onsite attendance days, subject to availability and agreement. The staff will have to work in their base office on two days per week.

    The AIB hubs are broadly scattered across the country, meaning some workers who live relatively remote from the bank’s two main Dublin offices may have less far to travel.

    The bank has also added office capacity in Block B in Central Park in Leopardstown, next to AIB’s existing facility, and some teams will be relocating their base location to our Central Park campus.

    The bank said it will not increase office attendance requirements further as long as the new arrangements are effective, but argued that working in office has benefits, including enabling “greater collaboration, connection and innovation”.

    “We also recognise the benefits of structured hybrid working and are committed to enabling it,” the bank said.

    “Some of our colleagues work in an office or branch five days a week; some onsite three to four days a week; and some, which is the group in question, work in the office two days a week. They will continue to be able to work from home, for two days a week,” AIB said in a statement.

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    Over the summer AIB told staff who are eligible for blended working that they’d have to the office at least three days a week.

    The plan will be phased in and take full effect from January 1.

    The bank had been urged by unions to reverse the new hybrid working policy that would have meant affected staff work in their base office three days a week.

    The FSU had argued that remote working was good for employers and employees, arguing it led to greater productivity and better work life balance.

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