AMP ditches offices

This follows the successful move to fully-flexible working during the Covid-19 crisis and AMP said it aligned with “overwhelming” feedback from its employees who said they did not want to return to traditional ways of working.

AMP Wealth Management chief executive Blair Vernon said: “We have been working towards creating a truly flexible work model for a couple of years, so we’re seizing the opportunities and learnings over the last couple of months to accelerate our plans.”

He said AMP believed a return to traditional ways of working, given New Zealand’s experiences during lockdown, would be short-sighted.

It surveyed its people and they agreed – 70% said their ideal work setting was a combination of working from home and the office; 22% said they would prefer to primarily work from home; and 8% from the office all the time.