Compliance to adjust oversight practices with return to office policies (IGNITES)

Compliance teams may be asked to review and update their employee oversight responsibilities depending on their firm’s return to office policies. While firms are implementing office policies on COVID-19 vaccination requirements, compliance staff could suddenly find their monitoring practices must now account for many more employees in the office. Amy Lynch, Founder and President of FrontLine sees human resources taking the lead on vaccination guidance and other new office policies, but compliance needing to be informed about the status of employees work location. Ms. Lynch states that compliance’s monitoring activities may change or return to pre-pandemic methods depending on those employees that have returned to the office from a work from home situation. See IGNITES (subscription required), “57% of Fund Shop Pros Favor In-Office Vaccine Requirements“