"While rank-and-file staff are dragged back to their desks, the CEO of the world's biggest talent company says only star performers will be able to cling on to fully remote roles. "You have to be very special to be able to demand a 100% remote job," van 't Noordende tells Fortune. "That's increasingly the story. You have to have very special technology skills or some expertise.""
""The whole phenomenon of freelance work has been coming up, of course, over the last decades... but that also requires also special skills-good commercial skills or networking skills, which not everybody has." For everyone else, there's no escaping at least some office time. But contrary to the hardline mandates from the likes of Amazon and JPMorgan, van 't Noordende doesn't think we're going back to old-school 9-to-5, five days a week as the norm."
Return-to-office mandates in 2025 have pushed many workers back to physical offices. A new workplace pecking order has formed, with fully remote roles largely reserved for star performers who possess specialized technology skills or expertise. Growth in freelance work favors individuals with strong commercial or networking abilities that many workers lack. Most employees will face at least some in-office time, but full five-day office weeks are unlikely to return. Hybrid arrangements of roughly three to four office days, supplemented by remote work, are becoming the prevailing model, with some banks in major cities as exceptions.
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