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IBM’s in-office ultimatum: Move near office or leave
IBM’s in-office ultimatum: Move near office or leave company
#IBMs #inoffice #ultimatum #Move #office #leave
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CNBC’s Becky Quick reports on the latest news from IBM.
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"at least 3 days a week", not exactly WFH unfriendly
Werent these conpanies employees and managers working efficiently during covid? How company was monitoring efficiency that time and attendance
Company just want an excuse to throw people off.
but managers have dispersed teams. so…….
So that woman clearly doesn’t undersatnd good management or the whole working from home deal. Responsible adults can actually get more done working from home without the distractions of that overly talkative coworker and the constant politics. At home they can be more task oriented, with check in meetings online.
Telecommuting is productive for experienced staff who has worked there for long. Not ver effective for newbies! even if you switch jobs, you're still newbie in the new company.
Was a great company not anymore…all I saw was corporate welfare.
IBM is a company not worth working for, the only problem is after you are at IBM for a few years, you no longer have marketable skills unless you are in sales or management.
Finally it's happening to the managers.
The admins have been told to move to different states/ locations or lose their jobs for years now.
It's a way for to clean house.
Obviously someone who has a mortgage in Arkansas is not going to pack up his family to move down to Texas or Colorado where the cost of living is triple where they live now. This is a way to clean house, it has nothing to do with being in the office 😊
Say screw that, quit, and work for yourself.
IBM is about to lose tons of employees
thats garbage
Becky has all the answers, huh?
I find it interesting for IBM to really force managers and not all employees… Who says managers usually means older and more experienced employees. Nothing new with IBM, they got so many lawsuits in the past for firing their over 50 years old employees. The same old story all over again!
The beginning of the business anti-remote worker season.
Why weren't managers living closer to an office anyway ???? IBM just cutting some chaff or will !! WFH will probably never get promoted or given good raises.
That’s illegal
IBM STILL EXISTS????😲😲😲😲😱😱😱
Don’t let the employees tell you what to
Gotta love Corporate America.
WITH This new huge introduction of a giant leap in technology from what we people are accustomed to using, it will be necessary for these tech Giants with extremely monopolizing intellectual property to want to keep a short leash on money hungry, lonely techies.
JUST Because we haven't been introduced to the technology doesn't mean they haven't been perfecting it.
TECHNOLOGY expands at an exponential rate, while humans have been offered it and are using it on more of a linear rate.
THERE Will no longer be small time independent players…
Do they have proof that employee production is overall under par based on historical figures?
Anyone seen my red stapler?
IBM, a computer company. TOO STUPID to utilize it's own technology for increasing work productivity. This company hasn't changed in decades… I worked there in the 80/90's, when tech adverse managers there, REFUSED to use a computer because they thought "typing" was something for a secretary to do. That cultural mentality is why IBM has become largely irrelevant today, and why I left. CLUELESSLY Managed Companies are destined to FAILURE
Many of us decades ago were asked to work remotely and we had to have a dedicated room for our office (and prove it), furnish it, and provide all office resources short of a provided laptop. Becky Quick as a teleprompter reader has one of the least skilled jobs imaginable. The statements she made were simple-minded and not fact based. In the EU, working from home for many highly skilled jobs is encouraged as it is expected you work smarter and working long hours is discouraged. Effective managers have means to measure performance without standing over your shoulder. America is in decline in large part because incompetents in media say the dumbest things.
This is BS
If I was an IBM employee I would tell management that where I live is none of their god damn business but of course I would find another job first.
This seems very short-sighted. The better you are at what you do, the less tight the labor market is for you. So it will actually be their best employees, for whom it will be easier to find a new job closer to where they live than to move.
Sounds like they are fishing for people to quit "voluntarily" to minimize layoffs.
More homes on the market soon in some areas. 😂
If your entire existence revolves around a corporation, you should at least think long and hard about whether that's what you want on your tombstone. YOU CAN DO THAT IF YOU WANT TO (obviously)… but you should take at least–what–a week? A month to think it over? Something like that. Reflection is key. Otherwise, one day, when you're replaced, yer gonna wonder what you did with your "life"… slave. 😉
Expect new pandemic…
Fine. Quiting tomorrow.
If you need to be in the office to manage people, you're just a terrible manager with poor communication skills.
RIP IBM
All those IBMers who moved and bought homes in the Caribbean 🏝️😮
Who tf wants to work for IBM anyway?
Glad Im not a manager but a Leader. However, I think that a mandate to relocate is crazy after you’ve hired people remotely. Who is bearing the expense of relocation? they should select the employees they want to keep and offer them a relocation package and a severance package to those they wich to layoff. but no one should be required to leave homes etc because a company all of a sudden changes their minds about remote work.
Will they help pay for my relocation expenses?
Isn't it interesting that the Pandemic pushed virtual work/schooling, but not that it is over, we want to go back to the old system. The ability to FaceTime, Zoom, Microsoft Meetings, Skype, etc have dramatically improved the ability of people to be productive away from the office. For the environmentalists, that means less commuting, less CO2, etc. For the workers, that means less time wasted on traveling, gas, vehicle maintenance, etc. To the economist, this means less need for office space, less money spent on traveling to meet clients, etc. The real issue is that management hasn't evolved sufficiently to deal with remote workers. If there was anything good that came from the pandemic, it should be for us to embrace remote work/schools.
A computer & software company who has trouble working remotely?? 🤔
Hahaha! Employee response: No
Middle management has to have people on office because if not, their jobs become irrelevant because software replaces them!!