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Sorry for any grammar problems > On May 23, 2017, at 19:51, Paul Gilmartin > <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >> 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
