Revolut to Require Interns and Recent Grads in Office Three Days a Week Starting 2027

UK fintech company Revolut announced that interns and participants in its recent-grads program must work in the office at least three days per week starting in 2027. The company will continue to allow other employees to choose whether to work remotely or in person. Revolut plans to bring on about 500 interns and graduate-program participants in 2027, up from about 300 this year.

Queenie Li, the company's head of talent programs, said the requirement reflects the value of in-person observation for early-career workers. "You don't just learn from your manager telling you what to do. You actually observe how other people conduct their work," Li said.

Business Insider reported that the move occurs as researchers examine whether remote work and AI have reduced entry-level hiring. Peter John Lambert and Yannick Schindler found that the share of entry-level hires fell by as much as 29 percent in recent years across several countries including the US, while hiring for senior positions rose by more than 5 percent.

New York Fed researchers studied an undisclosed Fortune 500 company and concluded that when colleagues are separated by remote work, feedback tapers off dramatically, with the loss more pronounced for younger workers.

Mark Ma found that companies with AI in job titles or descriptions reduced overall hiring, with the biggest declines in early-career roles. Nicholas Bloom stated that remote work, AI, pandemic-era learning losses, and a broader hiring slowdown are all plausible explanations for weaker job prospects for college graduates, though current data cannot isolate which factors drive the trend.