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IBM's Marissa Mayer Moment: Staff Ordered to Work in One of 6 Main Offices – Or Face the Axe

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday February 10 2017, @02:13AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday February 10 2017, @02:13AM (#465360) Journal
    I thought it was a terrible decision when she introduced it, but in hindsight it might not have been such a bad idea. Apparently Yahoo! discovered that about a load of the people who started turning up had no specified work to do. They'd been on the payroll for years, but through various reshuffles they'd ended up with their line managers not knowing who they were or even that they were supposed to be managing them.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @05:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 10 2017, @05:03AM (#465405)

    There's other ways of handling it that aren't so abusive. I'm sure there is deadwood in any company that large, but the way she's handling it is downright sociopathic. Most likely, the workers that would contribute the most to the company will simply leave for a company that will allow telecommuting and the ones that stay are the ones that can't find work elsewhere.

    There may be some good folks that aren't far enough away to where they feel the crunch, but giving a 30 day notice is obscene. Moving and finding a new place is going to take at least that long.