The UK Government is no longer instructing people to work from home, which has led Accor to launch ‘Commute and Stay’.
Accor’s new Commute and Stay offer gives workers a central base in a city hotel (with up to 15% discount) enabling two days in the office and a venue for evening entertainment with clients, colleagues, and friends before commuting back home out of the city.
Members of Accor’s free to join loyalty programme, ‘ALL: Accor Live Limitless’, can benefit from a further 10% discount on stays.
Karelle Lamouche, chief commercial officer, Accor Northern Europe, said: “The last year has shown employees and employers what can be achieved at home. Across the UK and around the world the idea of Work From Home (WFH) has taken hold. However even at the peak of the pandemic in 2020 our research showed us that WFH was not entirely what workers expected and people missed the social interaction offered by work. The work community and the social life that follows a working day can’t be replaced at home.”
Lamouche, added: “Work From Anywhere (WFA) grew as a concept in the second half of 2020 with the rise of ‘workations’, hotel office and co-working. But all eyes have been on this summer as businesses around the country decide the future of work. Now it’s here, it is clear a hybrid model of office work and work from anywhere is here to stay. The Commute and Stay offer enables workers to capitalize on this hybrid future of work and live anywhere just as they work from anywhere.”
“The reality of WFH during the pandemic is very different from WFH ‘normally’. Moving forward we see the solution being a hybrid model with employers rethinking commercial real estate and office spaces to enable employees to work from home and employees rethinking home life and residential real estate in order to find a happy and healthy balance or office work and WFA. Enjoy the best of both worlds, Commute and Stay.”
