In a first, PwC will allow all its 40,000 U.S. client services employees to work virtually permanently making it one of the biggest employers to embrace permanent 'work from home' models.
PwC employees who take up would have to come into the office a maximum of three days a month for in-person appointments for critical team meeting, learning sessions et al.
But the option comes with cost modelled on the same lines as Google's offer to employees the salary structure for WFH workers will require them to take a pay cut depending on living cost of area they are living in.
The need to provide remote work option is growing across companies. Host of a business show on CNBC's US network was quoted as saying “I continue to hear a litany of frustration from those who run large organizations in terms of their inability to get people back in the office. Some of these CEOs are at their wits’ end as how they deal with it. ‘How do I get people back in.’