Barclays Wants Eventual Return for Staff Working From Home

CEO Jes Staley emphasizes value of traditional workplaces
About three quarters of bank’s employees are working remotely

The Barclays Plc head offices in Canary Wharf, London.
Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg

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By Stefania Spezzati, Matthew Miller, and Annmarie Hordern

July 29, 2020 at 12:41 PM UTC

Updated on

July 29, 2020 at 3:17 PM UTC

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Barclays Plc is planning for normal office life to return. Eventually.

“We have some 60,000 people working from their kitchen tables,” Chief Executive Officer Jes Staley said in an interview with Bloomberg Television Wednesday. “It’s important to get people back together in physical concentrations,” although he emphasized health and safety concerns would be paramount and didn’t specify any timeframe.