As companies like Amazon, JpmorganAND Unsaturated Implementing the office return seats (RTO), a business is sweetening the deal by giving its employees an annual increase of $ 10,000 to present the office more often.
Cameo, a startup that allows users to buy and receive personalized video messages from celebrities, started a new RTO policy this week demanding that 26 employees working at the Agoikago company headquarters be in the office from Monday to Thursday, for Cnbc i do it. The policy, which the company first informed the staff last month, enables employees to receive an annual increase of $ 10,000 in addition to free parking, a free daily lunch and free access to a gym in the country.
“We really felt like we wanted to make HQ a strong blow, not a punishment,” Ceo Cameo Steven Galanis told CNBC to do it. “We know we are asking you more from you to give up flexibility, and we wanted to compensate you for it.”
Cameo has two dozen additional employees based elsewhere in SH.BA and abroad, mainly in New York and Los Angeles. They were allowed to continue to work remotely, but they were not given a salary increase.
Galanis, 37, chose to set up the annual rise of $ 10,000 because the figure would make a “significant” change in employees' lives and hoped it would help new employees find nearby shelters instead of taking long trips .
Agoikago's headquarters opened in the summer of 2024, but Cameo's leadership never forced a strict group of days that employees had to report to the office. Agoikago -based workers previously came to the office every time they needed it, showing on average two to three times a week, according to Galanis.
CEO of Cameo Steven and entered. Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service through Getty Images
When Cameo informed her employees in Chicikikago about the four-day integration policy a week last month, she also gave them the opportunity to move from Agoikago to avoid entering the office at all.
Cameo revealed that none of her employees left or left after the announcement. On the contrary, the opposite happened. Some of the distant Cameo workers, centered on other countries, express interest in transferring to Agoikago and taking advantage of the benefits provided to office employees.
A study of health Issued at the beginning of this month Surveyed more than 600 full -time employees, who were moved from completely remote work to hybrids or completely within persons. Three of the four employees said their experiences in RTO were positive, with 74% saying they suffered extended cooperation.
The main motivators for office participation were not free lunches or ups, they were professional development opportunities (50%) and team creation events (47%). The biggest obstacle to work within persons identified by the survey was travel costs (54%).
Cameo has experienced several shocking years. Pandemic catapulted the onset of unicorn status, with an estimate of 1 billion dollars By 2021. Sales fell by March 2024, By deleting 90% with the value of cameo.
Weak timely In December that he thinks the momentum has moved in favor of Cameo.
“I am really grateful to our investors and our team, that they have believed in me and allowed us to shoot a second company to build a company that we do not think has reached its potential yet,” he said.