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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @06:14PM
" She has done more to return 150 years into the past for workers rights than anything else."
Stop with the hyperbole.
Walmart and McDs wipe their psychotically anti-worker arses with her.
If you think not telecommuting is the worst sin against workers in 150 years you are a fucking moron.
Stop with the ridiculous hyperbole all the time people, it is tired and old...
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday February 09 2017, @07:33PM
" She has done more to return 150 years into the past for workers rights than anything else."
She has put more effort into this than anything else she has done; not she has done more than any other comparable person themself has.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"