Free food and threats to bonuses: UK finance and tech firms fight working from home

Banks and insurers join Google, Amazon and Meta in encouraging staff to spend most of week in office

Free parking and changes to managers' bonuses have helped Britain's biggest insurer, Aviva, lure staff back to their desks for most of the working week.

Welcome to the new-old world of work: where companies, particularly those in financial services and technology, push for staff to spend more days in the office as they try to rebalance the working from home trend.