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Fortune
Jane Thier

The chief people officer behind the strangest hybrid policy in the Fortune 500 pulls back the curtain on how they got workers back in office

Jill Penrose (Credit: Courtesy of Kimberly Kauffman)

J. M. Smucker Co is in a class of its own when it comes to its return-to-office plan, which isn’t much of a return at all. 

Originally reported by The Wall Street Journal’s Chip Cutter, Smucker’s, which is based in rural Orrville, Ohio, doesn’t require employees to come into the office any more than six days per month. More concretely, it delineated 22 “core weeks” a year, decided on a year in advance. The plan mostly shakes out to two core weeks per month, save for July and December, which both only have one core week to allow for holiday travel.

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