Remote Working: Can Employers Backpedal?

Once a pandemic necessity, remote working in Luxembourg is now being reconsidered. With some companies urging a full return to the office, important legal, organisational, and reputational questions arise.

Remote working, now the norm for many companies in Luxembourg, has seen a slowing in its rise and has even been called into question entirely.

Although this practice really took off during the pandemic, thanks to the simultaneous adoption of the Convention of 20 October 2020 on the legal regime for remote working (2020 Convention), some companies are now considering a return to a more traditional structure by asking their employees to come back to the office full time.

This trend raises a number of questions, from not just an organisational, but also legal and reputational, perspective.