Top Irish bosses split over right of staff to ask for remote working

Many firms thought it is still too early to assess whether hybrid working arrangements were working well. 

Maura Quinn, chief executive of the Institute of Directors in Ireland, whose survey fpund that  35% of business leaders believe the bill fails to strike the right balance between the rights of employers and employees.

Ireland's top bosses are split over the merits of the proposed legislation that grants employees some rights to request to work from home and the office, according to the Institute of Directors (IoD).

The Government earlier this year proposed that its Right to Request Remote Working Bill would help both employees and employers to organise the return to working in offices following the Covid crisis while allowing staff the right to submit requests to work from home.