Lloyd’s of London workers called back to the office for three days a week

Lloyd’s of London workers should come into the office at least three days a week, the chairman of the insurance market has insisted.

And Bruce Carnegie-Brown said it should not just be a case of people working Tuesday to Thursday and enjoying ‘long weekends’ – meaning Mondays and Fridays are not properly covered.

It is the latest effort to row back on working from home after HSBC UK and Lloyds Bank said staff must be at their desks three and two days a week respectively. 

Carnegie-Brown said workers come into Lloyd’s of London for an average of two and a half days a week.

‘We’ve got to make sure that we still work across the working week and that we don’t impede our ability to serve customers by the bookends of the week, defaulting to being a long weekend for everybody every week,’ he said.

It came as Lloyd’s reported a £3.9billion half-year profit, compared with a loss of £1.8billion a year earlier, thanks to rising insurance premiums and better investment returns.