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IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company::International Business Machines Corp. delivered a companywide ultimatum to managers who are still working remotely: move near an office or leave the company.

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[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So they have to move to an office, any office?

Meaning they can no longer be remote but don't have to be in the same office as the people they manage?

That makes a lot of sense.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

This is similar to what most tech companies have aligned on. I work 200 miles from my co-workers, my manager is 100 miles away, and while I'm supposed to be 100 miles away our tracking software doesn't care if I badge in 2 miles away at my local office.

If you're a multinational company, you'll be on video calls regardless of what you do, so it's fucking stupid that they enforce these rules.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Well at least when I was there IBM managers where managing multiple teams across different cities.

They had the same made up issue years ago as well. I think I went to the office maybe once or twice a year, then all of a sudden, every Friday was "Think Friday" and we had to sit in a big room and hear some sales person talk nonsense about cloud, agile development and how soon field technicians would be ditching their clipboards for digital solutions (this was a good 20 years after every tech in IBM had stopped using paper fyi).

IBM just wants to get rid of more people and this is their plan.

Or as it was in the past, IBM is in the business of getting out of business, and that business is good.