Santander boasted ‘flexibility is here to stay,’ then ramped up its RTO mandate to 12 days a month

An office worker using a Santander Cycle hire bike travels passes a Banco Santander bank (Credit: Luke MacGregor—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Santander famously took a liberal approach to work-from-home compared with its peers. 

While the likes of JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley called their employees back to the office, the Spanish bank touted its flexible work policies saying, “Flexibility is here to stay.” Its U.K. CEO even proclaimed that he took his job because it allowed him to live in and commute from Harrogate to the office in Milton Keynes (about 163 miles and three and a half hours of travel) on select days of the week.