- Barry Diller thinks employees should come to the office, but he’ll settle for four days a week.
- Diller told CNBC that different hybrid work models were causing chaos and argued for a standard model.
- On Friday, Diller sees a future in which people “can work from home or on their own schedule.”
Barry Diller believes that all the hybrid working models adopted by different companies in the wake of the pandemic are creating “chaos”.
And while he insists most employees should come to the office, he thinks four days could soon be enough — with flexibility on Fridays, the IAC and Expedia president said Thursday in an interview on CNBC .
On Friday, Diller foresees a future in which employees “can work from home or on their own schedule,” he said. “I think that will be the reasonable evolution of all of this, but it has to be standardized. You can’t have 17,000 different programs.”
Diller told CNBC he believes most employees should have returned to the office after the pandemic ends.
“If you have to talk to someone else, you can’t work from home,” he said. “Walk into an office and be part of an environment…that enhances your life, your career, and improves your business.”
Diller was responding to comments made Wednesday by New York Mets owner Steve Cohen, who told CNBC he believes a four-day work week is inevitable, fueled by the rise of AI.
The billionaire hedge fund manager said one of the reasons he invested in golf is because he expects people to have more time on their hands.
“People tell us that Fridays just aren’t — people aren’t as productive on Fridays,” Cohen told CNBC, “and so I just think that’s a possibility.”
During his appearance on CNBC, Diller also issued an urgent warning about AI and called Trump Media a “scam.”
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