Revolut drops remote-first policy for graduate hires from 2027
Revolut will require new graduate hires and interns to spend three days a week in its offices from 2027, ending the fintech’s remote-first contract type for early-career staff. The London-headquartered company confirmed the change to Sifted on 26 June 2026, with reporting in parallel from Personnel Today, the Irish Times and Finextra. Existing employees on remote-first contracts are unaffected by the change.
In its statement, Revolut said early-career hires “benefit from in-person collaboration and mentoring” – the standard mentor-and-osmosis argument deployed across the corporate RTO wave. The company did not specify which of its European offices new graduates would be required to attend, and did not commit to a date later in 2027 by which the policy would be reviewed.
Why this matters: Revolut’s graduate carve-out is narrower than the Stellantis-style blanket five-day mandate that landed earlier this year, but it sits at the leading edge of a pattern: European employers that built brand equity on “remote-first” hiring are now adding caveats. For job-seekers leaving university in 2027, the practical implication is that “remote-first” as advertised increasingly comes with an asterisk for early-career intake. For HR teams across European fintech, the symbolic significance is that a high-profile remote-first employer has set a public precedent for splitting policy by tenure rather than role – a structure other employers may copy faster than they would copy a blanket RTO.
The carve-out also raises a recruitment-funnel question. Revolut hires graduates across Europe – including from countries where local labour-market norms have shifted decisively toward hybrid (Ireland, the Netherlands, the Nordics). The three-days-in-office requirement will land differently in those markets than it would in a UK-only context.
The Revolut announcement comes the same week that Stellantis confirmed its phased rollout toward a full European RTO through 2027 (see our Stellantis Europe full RTO mandate piece) and follows the Ubisoft RTO mandate that triggered strikes in France. Together they form the corporate-watch picture for the back half of 2026: the European hybrid baseline (Eurofound puts hybrid at 44% of teleworkable jobs) is being defended against on a case-by-case rather than wholesale basis, with early-career hiring increasingly the wedge.