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Exclusive IBM is cracking down on remote workers, ordering unlucky employees to either come into one of six main offices and work "shoulder to shoulder" – or leave for good.
In a confidential video message to staff seen by The Register on Tuesday, chief marketing officer Michelle Peluso told her US marketing troops they must work at "a smaller set of locations" if they want to continue with the company. Staffers have 30 days to decide whether to stay or go.
This means affected IBMers who telecommute, work at a smaller district office, or otherwise work separately from their team, will now have just a few weeks to either quit their jobs, or commit to moving to another part of America. The company's employee badge system will be used to ensure people do come into the office rather than stealthily remain remote workers.
According to sources, the six "strategic" offices US marketing staff must work from are in: Austin, Texas; San Francisco, California; New York City, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; and Raleigh, North Carolina. El Reg understands that employees will not get to choose a nearby office, but will instead be assigned a location based on where their team is predominantly situated. The first wave of workers were informed of the changes on Monday. The next wave will be instructed in early March, we're told.
Marissa Mayer has worked wonders at Yahoo and the rest of the tech industry should follow her lead?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Lester on Thursday February 09 2017, @11:04AM
That's the spirit that has lead to a world were companies are first class citizens and human beings a little more than raw material or tools, in the end, slavery is not main issue.
The main problem is the concept "companies... look at, company... get around, company... obey". Companies don't look, get around or obey, people do. Persons who make decisions should be accountable, not companies. And that really seldom ever happen. Companies shouldn't be under investigation, people who made the decisions should be, not as a representative or spokeman of the company but people in their own name.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 09 2017, @04:51PM
I'm not normally a grammar nazi - but your "lead" instead of "led" suggests a solution to me. A lead filled pipe upside some corporate leader's heads would fix a lot of problems. So much for first class citizens, right?
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday February 09 2017, @08:51PM
On this... I agree completely. A lead pipe right up the majority of every MBA's fucking head. Let's add to that though, and if they don't clean up their act, a wooden stick right up their asses. Vlad the Impaler style.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday February 10 2017, @02:17AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @06:17PM
You mean corps are first class citizens, women and their children are second class, and males are just dogshit since 1870 or so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @08:38AM
Women: Luxury animal for the upper classes; Breeding animal for the middle class; breeding and working animal for the lower class.