WHEN assurance firm Audit Alliance implemented remote working arrangements for the first time during the Covid-19 pandemic, chief executive Bernard Lee was shocked to find his Pakistan-based employees moonlighting.

“One time, we asked them to turn on their cameras during a Zoom meeting. We saw that they were working in other people’s offices. Sometimes, there was even another company’s logo behind them,” he told The Business Times (BT).

This was one of the reasons the company decided to mandate a fully work-from-office policy for all employees – including those in Singapore.