LinkedIn will allow most employees to opt for full-time remote work as offices gradually reopen, Reuters quotes the company’s Chief People Officer Teuila Hanson as saying.

This new policy from Microsoft Corp's professional social networking site is a reversal of the company's initial indication last October that employees would be expected to work from an office 50 per cent of the time, when Covid-19 pandemic restrictions lift.

The updated policy, offering employees the flexibility to work remotely full-time or work at an office part-time, will apply to LinkedIn's global workforce of more than 16,000 employees.

“We anticipate that we'll definitely see more remote employees than what we saw prior to the pandemic,” Hanson said in a interview ahead of the announcement, adding that some jobs would require in-office work.