Spotify is embracing remote work in style with an announcement on Friday that it will allow its employees to choose where they would like to work, both for their preference for coming to the office or staying at home and their geographical location around the world. Spotify is calling the Work From Anywhere initiative and describes it as a “new form of collaboration that allows Spotifiers to work from wherever they think and create better”.
“Through this mentality distributed first, we are giving employees the opportunity to choose a Work Mode – whether they prefer to work primarily at home or in the office – as well as their geographical location,” says the company’s blog. Spotify says it will implement the new options this summer, and the choice of how often, if ever, an employee returns to the office will be decided by the employee in conversations with his manager and staff.
As for the freedom to work for Spotify anywhere in the world, the company says it will allow employees to decide their location “with some limitations in dealing with time zone difficulties and the laws of regional entities at the initial launch of this program”, says more in – Deep post on the company’s human resources blog. “If someone chooses a location that is not close to a Spotify office, we will support them with a co-working space association if they want to work in an office.”
Spotify’s decision comes in the wake of a Salesforce announcement earlier this week, in which the cloud computing giant said it would give employees the option to work primarily from home from now on and also give workers more flexibility in their daily schedules for taking care of children or taking care of personal matters. Dozens of other major technology companies, including Facebook and Microsoft, have also announced key commitments to remote work and allowing employees to make their new COVID-era work environments permanent in the future, if they so wish.