The Register reports that IBM Software's Kareem Yusuf, senior VP for product management, and Dinesh Nirmal, senior VP for products, gave employees the bad news in an...
IBM Software mandates in-office work for employees living within 50 miles | “Software Executive Focals” will be laying down the law::undefined
It’s odd too. A lot of places have offices in various cities too. So you can live in one city, and your team works in a different city or state. So their micromanaging isn’t possible since you’ll be at a completely different office. It just doesn’t make sense. So we enter the “quiet layoff” stages.
Next headline will read, “Have companies started their own version of quiet quitting by forcing employees back to the office in an effort to get them to quit or he fired.”
Yeah my company’s office is 20 miles from where I live. I rarely go into the office, usually just for company events. Because the entire team I manage is based in India… so I would just be going into the office to have virtual meetings there instead of where I live. Thankfully they are on a fully remote policy, if they decided to change that I’d probably seek another job
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Yet another company doing RTO layoffs to avoid paying severance
Financials coming up too. Got to make it look like they’re ‘taking action’ on poor performance.
I hate how inhumane money makes us.
Now now, some of the executives probably sincerely miss harassing their employees.
It’s odd too. A lot of places have offices in various cities too. So you can live in one city, and your team works in a different city or state. So their micromanaging isn’t possible since you’ll be at a completely different office. It just doesn’t make sense. So we enter the “quiet layoff” stages.
Next headline will read, “Have companies started their own version of quiet quitting by forcing employees back to the office in an effort to get them to quit or he fired.”
Yeah my company’s office is 20 miles from where I live. I rarely go into the office, usually just for company events. Because the entire team I manage is based in India… so I would just be going into the office to have virtual meetings there instead of where I live. Thankfully they are on a fully remote policy, if they decided to change that I’d probably seek another job
I do exactly this 3 days a week…
I would probably voluntarily go in 1-2 days a week because it’s nice to get out sometimes. However, a mandatory 3 days feels dumb.