The airline said at the time: “The global pandemic has shown us that many of our colleagues enjoy working remotely and want to continue, and this has accelerated our focus on providing more agile and flexible ways of working.”
The company has cut more than 10,000 jobs in recent years.
It comes when ministers blamed travel companies for not hiring enough staff to meet the demand for post-pandemic holidays.
More than 150 flights from the UK were canceled on Wednesday, aggravating scenes of chaos and anxiety in the medium term at airports. Tui was responsible for canceling dozens of these flights.
Increasing scrutiny of flexible work
There is a growing scrutiny of large companies and public bodies whose staff continue to work from home months after the end of the pandemic.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the government’s efficiency minister, is leading a campaign to get Whitehall officials back to their desks.
The Tui Workwide Plan was launched in August 2021. Since then, staff have spent a total of 4,500 days working abroad.
It emerged on Wednesday that Tui continues to offer reduced holiday offers for this month, despite canceling thousands of flights because it does not have enough staff to man them, and received accusations of wit.
The company said the scheme only applies to non-operational office-based functions.