Atom银行放弃达勒姆总部，首席执行官马克·马伦指责竞争对手对在家工作“情绪化”

Atom 银行将成为最新一家放弃办公室的银行，因为太多员工在家工作。

Atom Bank will become the latest lender to abandon its offices because so many employees are working from home.

Atom 银行将成为最新一家放弃办公室的银行，因为太多员工在家工作。

Chief executive Mark Mullen said attendance at the app-based bank’s headquarters in Durham is only at a third of previous levels and it will look for a new location in the North East of England.

首席执行官马克·马伦 (Mark Mullen) 表示，这家基于应用程序的银行位于达勒姆 (Durham) 总部的出席人数仅为之前的三分之一，并将在英格兰东北部寻找新地点。

The plan to move follows the decisions by larger rivals HSBC, Lloyds and TSB to switch offices or reduce space because of flexible working.

此次搬迁计划是在大型竞争对手汇丰银行、劳埃德银行和 TSB 因灵活工作而决定更换办公室或减少空间之后做出的。

But Mullen is not concerned by the trend, unlike some rival bosses, and accuses those who oppose working from home of being ‘emotional’.

但与一些竞争对手的老板不同，马伦并不担心这一趋势，并指责那些反对在家工作的人“情绪化”。

He said that while he enjoys being in the office, it is ‘not reasonable’ to expect younger employees to have to do so and that his focus was on building an efficient business wherever they are based. Atom has also, since 2021, allowed employees to work just four days a week.

他表示，虽然他喜欢在办公室工作，但要求年轻员工这样做是“不合理的”，他的重点是在任何地方建立高效的业务。自 2021 年以来，Atom 还允许员工每周只工作四天。

Mullen told the Mail: ‘We occupy about one third of the space that we used to occupy in the office so we have reduced the lease agreements that we have with our landlords. We’ve adapted to that because the usage is much less.

马伦告诉《每日邮报》：“我们占用的办公室空间约为过去的三分之一，因此我们减少了与房东签订的租赁协议。我们已经适应了这一点，因为使用量少得多。

‘We’re looking at moving to a new headquarters next year – it’ll definitely be in the North East but we’ll make a decision about which city in due course.’

“我们正在考虑明年搬到新总部——肯定会在东北部，但我们会在适当的时候决定在哪个城市。”

Atom Bank employs around 500 staff, with a London office as well as its Durham base.

Atom Bank 拥有约 500 名员工，在伦敦设有办事处以及达勒姆基地。

Working from home means some staff are based as far away as Inverness in the north of Scotland or in the south of England, Mullen said, though most are in the North East – around Durham or Newcastle.

马伦说，在家工作意味着一些员工远至苏格兰北部的因弗内斯或英格兰南部，但大多数都在东北部的达勒姆或纽卡斯尔附近。

He admitted that not being in the office made it harder to see how productive employees are – and employers’ systems need to be updated to find out.

他承认，不在办公室就更难了解员工的工作效率，而雇主的系统需要更新才能找到答案。

But he said conversations among senior executives and leaders in the industry suggested they ‘don’t feel comfortable’ about staff working from home, and that ‘creativity is being hindered’.

但他表示，行业高管和领导者之间的对话表明，他们对员工在家工作“感到不舒服”，并且“创造力受到阻碍”。

Mullen, however, said: ‘But it’s more about emotions and feeling than it is about facts. I like coming to the office.

然而，马伦说：“但这更多的是情感和感觉，而不是事实。”我喜欢来办公室。

‘I’m 35 years working – my heritage in working goes back well before the internet. It’s not reasonable that my paradigm should work for somebody who’s a digital native.’

“我已经工作了 35 年——我的工作传统可以追溯到互联网出现之前。我的范式适用于数字原住民，这是不合理的。

Atom last week reported an operating profit of £27million for the year to the end of March, up from £4million.

Atom 上周公布截至 3 月底的全年营业利润为 2700 万英镑，高于 400 万英镑。