At the end of last year, Schroders’ CEO Peter Harrison made a landmark announcement when he declared that the EUR 591 billion asset management house would be running its global operations on a carbon-neutral basis from the beginning of this year. Part of the new business plan was less travelling. However, what the plan did not cover was the global pandemic that has rendered travel almost impossible and left the firm’s teams stranded and mostly working from home.
Holding the fort in Stockholm are Henrik Jonsson, the country head for the Nordic region at Schroders and Senait Asgede, a senior client director. We are meeting up via a videolink and Henrik Jonsson opens up the conversation by stating that even though we’ve seen many larger events that people assumed would have a large impact on the future, this time, he says, will be different. With so many people working from home for such an extended period of time, the current way of working becomes more commonplace, he explains. “This is not just a couple of weeks. We’re spendingThe full article is only available to members
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