RingCentral SVP Amir Hameed has opened up on the collaboration firm’s hybrid work policy which mandates 30 days in the office per quarter for some employees.
RingCentral adopted the strategy earlier this year, which sees employees in certain back-office roles able to choose which 30 days they come to the office over a three-month period.
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The vendor encourages each employee to take accountability for hitting the 30-day mark and also ties the objective to quarterly management-by-objective bonus targets.
Speaking at UC Expo in London this week, Hameed, who heads up solutions sales and engineering, said that the strategy has provided greater flexibility to employees who were missing some elements of remote working they’d enjoyed previously, while still enabling the benefits of in-person collaboration.
“At RingCentral, we get the opportunity to talk to customers globally… many of which have [return to office] mandates, and then others have been more flexible,” he said.
“What we’ve seen ourselves, as we’re learning from our customers, is the mandates don’t necessarily work very well.
“Initially, we had our own where we said they might be in three times a week, but our employees said that wasn’t very flexible, especially coming off of Covid.”
Hameed mentioned the structure is particularly effective for back-office workers who want flexibility with their work location but don't typically travel for work.
