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On February 27, 2018, an Assicurazioni Generali SpA logo is seen on a building housing their offices in Saint-Denis, near Paris, France. BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS (Reuters) – MILAN, July 8 (Reuters) – Generali (GASI.MI), Italy’s largest insurer, is mulling hybrid working in the post-pandemic age, with employees spending time in the office as well as working from home, according to its CEO. Banks and insurers around the world are working out how to handle the return of employees to their offices after the coronavirus outbreak caused them to restructure their work arrangements, with the majority of employees able to work remotely. “It will be a hybrid model. In our opinion, an ideal work-life balance would be 60% in the office and 40% at home. We also feel it must be well-organized “Speaking at an online event, CEO Philippe Donnet remarked. Generali only allowed employees of some of its units to work remotely a few days a week before the COVID-19 outbreak. Donnet noted that the new approach “cannot be based solely on people’s (personal) choices.” He claimed that no one would be allowed to stay at home the entire time, but that those who chose to come into the office every day would be able to do so. Generali has begun conversations with unions, according to the executive. UniCredit (CRDI.MI), an Italian bank, announced this week that once the crisis is resolved, it will let its non-branch employees around the world to work from home for up to two days per week on average. find out more Morgan Stanley’s (MS.N) CEO warned last month that he would be “extremely dissatisfied” if most staff at the bank’s Manhattan headquarters did not return to work in September. find out more Gianluca Semeraro contributed reporting, and David Evans edited the piece. The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles are our standards./nRead More

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