Boots orders support staff back into office five days a week from September

Boots CEO Seb James said the office should be support staff’s ‘normal place of work’ but conceded there would be ‘the odd day when it makes much more sense for your to work elsewhere’. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Boots is ordering administrative staff back into the office for five days a week from September as it tries to gear up the business before a potential sale or flotation.

The CEO, Seb James, said the employees – who had been asked to work at least three days a week in the group’s various bases in Nottingham, Weybridge in Surrey, and London – should return for the full working week, arguing that the office was a “much more fun and inspiring place” with everyone in attendance.