Workers accused of wanting ‘pop star’ treatment and four-day weekends Business

Mr Ulbrich told Bloomberg: “The idea of ​​flexibility is not to give people a four-day weekend and a three-day working week, it’s to tie that flexibility into your private life. .”

He said the main benefit of the office environment was that “it’s much more productive when you need others” to do your work, adding: “You get a better result if you’re in a room together. »

City leaders have been reluctant to require employees to return to their pre-pandemic working habits of being in the office five days a week for fear of staff uprisings.

Wall Street giants such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan were only among a handful of large employers to require staff to be back in their offices full-time.

However, amid a scorching job market, even banks notorious for having a grueling long-hours culture are introducing new perks in an effort to keep workers on their side.

Last week The Telegraph revealed that Goldman will allow its senior bankers to take as many vacations as they want under a new holiday scheme.