Travel giant Trip.com Group will from next month begin to allow staff to work from home or elsewhere away from the office for two days a week, becoming the first largest tech company in China to introduce such a hybrid work policy.
Speaking to Reuters, Trip.com executive chairman James Liang said the practice was good for morale and encouraged other Chinese companies to adopt it.
COVID-19 has driven numerous tech companies abroad, including Microsoft and Apple,to introduce more flexible work arrangements, but the trend has been slow to catch on in China, which managed to bring its epidemic under control relatively early on.