{"id":408246,"date":"2026-04-20T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408246\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:57:09","slug":"bank-of-ireland-staff-told-office-attendance-to-be-used-in-performance-reviews-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408246\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Ireland staff told office attendance to be used in performance reviews \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bank of Ireland<\/a> has warned staff that they could face disciplinary proceedings if they do not meet the lender\u2019s minimum office attendance policy, introduced last year. <\/p>\n

Most employees of the bank are required to attend the office for at least two days a week, or eight days a month, under the policy, which was criticised by the Financial Services Union (FSU)<\/a> last year. <\/p>\n

In an email to staff on Monday, Bank of Ireland\u2019s chief people officer Matt Elliott said that not enough staff are meeting the minimum requirements. <\/p>\n

To combat non-attendance, he said that from June, all swipe-in data for colleagues would be visible and reported on a monthly basis to line managers. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis will show the number of days each month that each of us attends a Bank of Ireland office or hub,\u201d Elliott said. <\/p>\n

Attendance records will also be taken into account as part of employee performance assessments. <\/p>\n

\"\"Has the fuel protest shown that the loudest lobby generally gets what they want?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf any colleague is not meeting the minimum in-person requirement they will receive a full year rating of \u2018inconsistent\u2019, unless the line manager deems there to be good reason,\u201d Elliott said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs you know, performance rating impacts any bonus the group may award, and future pay increases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Failure to meet the attendance requirement can also result in disciplinary proceedings, \u201cas it would for any matter of non-compliance\u201d, he added. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur hybrid approach is market-leading in terms of flexibility,\u201d Elliott continued. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe pair that with a network of remote working hubs that is unparalleled in [the Republic]. We are to the forefront of companies that recognise the value in blending in-person collaboration with remote working flexibility. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe also know that colleagues who are meeting the requirement have a more positive experience of what it is like to work here, with higher engagement. For these reasons, achieving consistency is essential, requiring this approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the new hybrid policy was announced last year, the FSU said the arrangements were problematic and went against the views of staff. <\/p>\n

The union referred Bank of Ireland to the Workplace Relations Commission over the changes last August.<\/p>\n

John O\u2019Connell, general secretary of the FSU, said it had given the bank \u201cevery opportunity to hold meaningful negotiations\u201d over the proposed changes, which it said had been made unilaterally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intransigence of BOI, their continued refusal to listen to the concerns of their staff, is a worrying and disturbing development,\u201d he said, noting that the union has written to the Irish Banking Culture Board (IBCB) <\/a>to bring the bank\u2019s \u201crecent behaviour\u201d to is attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of Ireland has warned staff that they could face disciplinary proceedings if they do not meet the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7863,56710,61,60,43,6465],"class_list":{"0":"post-408246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-bank-of-ireland","9":"tag-financial-services-union","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-workplace-relations-commission"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}