Thermo Fisher Tightens Office Mandate: 4 Days/Week
Thermo Fisher Scientific (#101 in the Fortune 500) just tightened its workplace policy.
In a message from a former employee (with ties to current employees), Buildremote learned that Thermo Fisher increased its company-wide return-to-office (RTO) policy to four days per week in the office.
Based on the timing of the message and some comments posted on employee forums, the new policy was sent out on April 18 or 19.
Here’s what we know about Thermo Fisher’s RTO policy.
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Return To Office Policy
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RTO Discussions On The Layoff
After receiving the message about Thermo’s new RTO policy, I checked message boards for discussions.
An anonymous person posted on thelayoff.com on April 19:
Multiple comments followed, with this one giving the most insight:
“It’s coming… they will be asking ALL employees to come back on the office four days a week my year end whether you were hired as remote or not.”
Thermo’s Transition To 4 Days/Week In The Office
Based on what I’ve heard from former employees, many of Thermo’s VPs are already remote or primarily remote, whether hired that way or were approved to work that way in the past few years.
On top of that, workplace policies were previously set at the team level. For some, this won’t be a change at all. For others, this will be a big change.
Access Every Fortune 500 RTO Policy
At the time of writing, Thermo Fisher is one of 16 Fortune 500 companies that require four days per week in the office.
- Five-day companies make up 14% of the known policies for the Fortune 500
- Three days per week is the most common policy at 41% of the dataset
- Zero days per week (no requirements) accounts for 21% of the dataset
