The nation's largest payers have made recent moves back to the office, but most are offering employees more flexible work styles than what they offered before the pandemic.
Cigna said April 15 that employees at its Bloomfield, Conn., headquarters are no longer facing a mandatory number of days in the workplace, according to CT Insider.
The payer still encourages employees to come to the office as needed.
"We encourage flex employees — those who can work both at home and in the office — to begin coming into the office more regularly for collaboration, connection, and networking opportunities. We call this concept 'Purposeful Presence.' It's intentionally simple and based on our core belief and trust that performance is based on outcomes, not physical presence," a Cigna spokesperson told CT Insider. "While we do not require employees to come into the office a certain number of days a week, we ask managers to take a thoughtful and empathetic approach and encourage employees to come into the office as needed and when outcomes would be best achieved when physically together."