So if there are six co-located locations, how is one Manager supposed to over see everyone in their chair if the manager is in City A but employee is in City B.
Does not make sense. Especially if they saved 100 Million by having these workers remote to start with. Crazy Lizette -----Original Message----- >From: Doug Fuerst <d...@bkassociates.net> >Sent: May 23, 2017 4:58 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: Looks like lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks > > 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 > > > >------ Original Message ------ >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." >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
