I wonder if or when they will give this one and Ginny Rometty their
walking papers. IBM has been faltering for years. Maybe a change in the
senior ranks would be in order.
Doug Fuerst
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From: "Steve Beaver" <st...@stevebeaver.com>
To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu
Sent: 23-May-17 7:41:00 PM
Subject: Looks like lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks
As we all know IBM has started the no more Remote work. Looks like lots
of
folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks
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."
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