Work Flexibility Eroded: Disheartening Shift in Company Policy - Business Analyst Priceline.com Employee Review

Thanks for the post and for sharing your reaction to our updated flex policy providing three days of week for you to choose where you work and requiring folks to be in the office two days a week. As we showed during the CEO Update where this was discussed, the majority of companies, like us, have realized a hybrid approach will be the best of both worlds - the ability for folks to continue to have choice over where they work the majority of days, but also provide the camaraderie of working together and enhanced opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and development that come with in-office work. Given your tenure, you may not have been with us much before the pandemic so may not be valuing the in-office component as much as we do. We believe that once you experience it, you will see the benefits it provides. Your review may leave readers under the impression that we had a full remote policy before this announcement, so it is important to note that we did not. We have consistently reinforced the role that our offices play in maintaining and evolving our culture. We have consistently hired near our offices with very few exceptions (for very hard to fill roles). Finally, in reviewing the entire transcript from the CEO Update, it is important to note that Brett (our CEO) did not say it was “easy to find valuable employees.” Two statements are conflated here. One was when he reinforced that all employees were valuable, and acknowledged that some may unfortunately choose to leave if they are dead set on a fully remote job. The second was when asked “is there any concern that we will miss out on high qualified job candidates due to our updated policy” and he said that no, we are not experiencing any trouble attracting highly qualified talent. I hope you find that once you get through the change of daily routine and are coming in a couple of days a week, you do enjoy the opportunities it affords.