On Tue, 23 May 2017 18:41:00 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote: >As we all know IBM has started the no more Remote work. Looks like lots of >folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks > "Lots"? I see no numbers. Citation needed?
>Earlier this year, IBM's Chief Marketing Officer Michelle Peluso announced >that the U.S. marketing division's 2,600 employees would have to "co-locate" >or collaborate onsite from one of six cities. Those who worked primarily >from home would have to move to one of the cities or quit IBM. > >For decades, IBM embraced remote work. Eight years ago, 40 percent of IBM >workers worldwide telecommuted. As a result, it saved about $100 million a >year in the U.S. and had reduced office space by 78 million square feet. > >IBM remote workers who choose to resign rather than move to one of the six >cities will be paid severance, according to an IBM internal document, of one >month's base salary, the standard at IBM. Peluso says she plans to recruit >replacements for those employees from the six co-located locations-not >abroad. "If what I were trying to do was reduce headcount," she says, "there >are much simpler and easier ways to do that, which would be less disruptive >for everyone, myself included." -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
