3M Ends Remote-Friendly Policy by Asking Managers Back in Office Three Days
- Company had offered desk workers flexibility for three years
- New CEO Bill Brown wants to reinvigorate innovation pipeline
3M’s headquarters in Maplewood, Minnesota.
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3M Co.’s new chief is recalling managers to the office, dialing back a remote-friendly policy that his predecessor had hailed as being “rooted in flexibility and trust.”
The industrial giant, which has 85,000 employees globally, will expect — but not require — those at the director level and above to come into an office Tuesday through Thursday, which the company has deemed “collaboration days,” a 3M spokesperson confirmed. For those below the director rank, the new policy is voluntary.