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posted by on Thursday February 09 2017, @09:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the end-of-an-era dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @04:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @04:04PM (#465051)

    Yeah, who needs intrusions like saying workers should actually get whole days off sometimes. Or that as a society we don't want 'average' people working over so many hours in a week without adequate additional compensation to make up for all the people who think working only X hours a week should be the norm.

    Or that workplaces must be safe and not endanger the health and safety of workers by their existence. Or that public safety demands that a truck driver can only work for so long without a sleep period.

    Or that job conditions can only be changed on you so much before a determination that you are no longer working the same job and therefore by leaving are being laid off and entitled to unemployment and not quitting.

    Who needs all that stuff, eh, libertarian dreamer? No thanks. I'll take appropriately regulated businesses. *Including* those who are self or family employed.

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