PRH US to ‘encourage’ employees to use office more frequently

In the US, Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya has written a memo to US staff encouraging them to use the office ‘more frequently’, reports Publishers Weekly.

Malaviya wrote that PRH is ‘not planning a company-wide mandate to return to in-person work’ at its 1745 Broadway office, or any other office location. ‘For the past three years, we’ve adopted a progressive mindset in building a flexible work environment to help us navigate our ever-shifting world,’ Malaviya wrote. ‘We’re now in a vastly different reality than we were in 2020.’

The letter signals a change for PRH after then-CEO Madeline McIntosh declared the company was ‘remote friendly’ in April 2021. In a company-wide statement, McIntosh had said that being a remote-friendly company ‘doesn’t mean that everyone will work from home all the time, but it does mean that those who choose to and are able to do their jobs from home (which is most of us, as 2020 showed) can continue to do so.’

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