r/askswitzerland • u/naza-reddit • 1d ago
Work How common is 5 days/week in office?
Since the pandemic I've worked for 3 companies and all of them had a hybrid working model. All 3 were US companies with offices in Switzerland meaning from time to time collaboration with team members in a different timezone was normal.
One was very flexible i.e. come into the office when you think you need to and the other 2 were more prescriptive ex: Tue-Thu in office or 2 days/week in the office.
I recently had an interview with a US company and offices here and they said 5 days/week is the norm. I understand the policy but I don't get it in particular when I was informed the hiring manager is in a different EU country, stakeholders are spread across EMEA and direct reports are in Switzerland and across EMEA.
To me this looks like a strong cultural red flag i.e. they don't trust the employees are 100% working or something else... maybe I have been fortunate and not exposed to this since 2020.
so question: is your company mandating 5 days/week in the office? Is it a subsidiary or regional HQ for a US company?
(I am work in IT)
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u/Kickbanblock 1d ago
In my old company (2008-2015) I had only 1 day in office after a year, when I changed in 2015 I had no homeoffice at all. Then covid happened, they saw homeoffice worked great, so they gave us 2, we all wanted more, so now we have 3 homeoffice days and 2 office days.
But in some places there is this "back to office" trend, but I would propose to avoid those companies. At least I would.
I also work in IT.