The bank’s CEO breaks from the packaging to the office. He goes 4 days a week but leaves the rest of the ‘adults’ with whom he is working

Recent Interview with Bloomberg’s TVWinters was unequivocal: « We work with adults, and adults can talk to other adult adults and decide how to best control their team. » He stressed that the approach is « working for us » and more, « How other companies do this to work? Everyone has their own recipe. » The Standard Chartered recipe is rooted in flexibility, allowing teams and leaders to agree on schedules for their office needs and personal life.

Winters that themselves follow the hybrid schedule and strive to be in the office four days a week, says that his approach is to promote responsibility. « MDS wants to come to the office. They come to the office because they work together. They lead people. They lead teams. But if they need flexibility, they can get it from us, » he said. This awkward attitude has helped the bank to maintain talent, to keep lifting low, and maintain a productive workforce that manages to provide results to the Post-pandemic landscape.

Standard Chartered performance is currently booming. In the second quarter of 2025, the bank reported that the taxes of 48%of the uprising of the previous taxes indicate the validation of the flexible model. On Second -quarter earnings call with analystsWinters commented on strong results by saying that they are « a certificate of our ability to provide exceptional services to support our customers’ needs, and it is clear that our strategy works. »

The bank unlike others

Unlike the growing Aalto industrial competitors, the bank’s flexible policy is from the growing Aalto of the office authorization. JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and HSBC have all tightened the office’s entry requirements last year. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, has criticized telework in slowing down decision -making and preventing innovation, and recently most employees return to the office full -time. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon has also rejected telework as « Not a new normal« But » the deviation we are going to fix as quickly as possible. « HSBC also recently directed his CEO to the office at least four days a week.

Other banks, Like CitiStay more flexible, but still require at least three days to go to the office while hybrid workers set windows for telecommuting. In many areas, including technology and telecommunications, the trend is in terms of stricter office requirements, and some major employers warn that ongoing telework can endanger jobs.

Companies standing with remote or flexible work schedules say that it leads to a A better talented poolless revenue and a happier jobAlthough critics say it must be corroded to a human element that goes into a great teamwork. Winters reject such concerns. He insists that with the right leadership, teams will remain in cooperation and committed, and that forcing staff into a rigid mold can actually be prevented instead of not helping.

As Wall Street and other sectors discuss the future of the work, the approach of the Standard Chartered application provides a compelling case study on the value of case – and business logic – to authorize employees to achieve their own balance.

Standard Chartered did not respond to the comment request.

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