Barclays Wants Eventual Return for Staff Working From Home (1)

Barclays Plc is planning for normal office life to return. Eventually.

“We have some 60,000 people working from their kitchen tables,” Chief Executive Officer Jes Staley said in an interview with Bloomberg Television Wednesday. “It’s important to get people back together in physical concentrations,” although he emphasized health and safety concerns would be paramount and didn’t specify any timeframe.

The British bank returned some staff to offices in the U.K., U.S. and India in July, and told the rest of its workforce to stay home at least until the end of September. Currently about a quarter of its people are ...