UPS recently informed its employees that it will require full-time office attendance, joining a small group of big companies that are pushing for five days in the office, writes Chip Cutter for The Wall Street Journal.

Other major companies that already asked at least some segments of their workforce to return to the office full-time include JPMorgan Chase and Boeing.

While this approach remains anomalous to the majority of companies that are still opting for some type of hybrid work model, it is indicative of a desire among top executives to repopulate offices and go back to pre-pandemic ways of working.

Currently, 82 percent of employers in the Fortune 500 still offer remote work opportunities of some kind, according to data from Scoop Technologies.

A Stanford University analysis found that Americans spent around 30 percent of their paydays working remotely in January 2024, which is about the same as the same period last year.

Meanwhile, despite the new additions, the number of companies requiring five days in the office has shrunk from 49 percent at the start of 2023 to 38 percent at the end.

Read more about how companies are joining a small group of larger businesses that are pushing for full-time office attendance for their employees in The Wall Street Journal.

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Goldman Sachs is one of the big companies embarking on a fresh effort to enforce its policy of working from the office five days a week.