Does your home or office hold the key to solving the climate crisis? Experts say yes Siddall made the comments Wednesday during an interview in Calgary, where he was attending the grand opening of AIMCo’s new office in that city.AIMCo — which is responsible for the investments of pension, endowment and government funds in Alberta, with $163.8 billion of assets under management as of the end of last year — has approximately 600 employees spread across offices in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, London, U.K., and Luxembourg.Since the lifting of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, those employees have been able to decide within their individual teams how often they want to come into the physical office — with the company suggesting that two days a week be the “starting place” for that conversation, but no firm rules to that effect.“Our philosophy at AIMCo is we’re all adults,” Siddall said. “Where you do this work doesn’t matter.
There’s some orthodoxies around culture, where people say, ‘you can only preserve a culture if people are in the office full-time.’ I just don’t agree with that.”For Canada’s white-collar workers and employers, the pandemic was a years-long experiment in flexible, remote work.This September has pitted some bosses and workers against each other with a renewed push by some companies to get employees back into office buildings.
Employers face juggling act with return-to-work plans: ‘People don’t like change’ And instead of the voluntary return-to-office guidelines that were a feature of earlier points in the pandemic, many employers are now mandating office attendance through corporate policies.Those policies don’t make sense at a time when companies are still struggling with ongoing labour shortages,.