IBM Software mandates in-office work for employees living within 50 miles | “Software Executive Focals” will be laying down the law::undefined
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.
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.
Now now, some of the executives probably sincerely miss harassing their employees.
100%
Nah. The managers prefer in-office and companies are addicted to “corporate culture” which they can’t control if you’re working from home.
It has nothing to do with firing people (unless you want the most competent people to quit) nor does it have anything to do with real estate (no company will try to help fix a collective action problem voluntarily unless the attempt gives good PR or profits)
You don’t triple your software output by going to the office. You can improve it by getting developers uninterrupted time with a healthy line of workable items ahead of them.
This is probably going to have the opposite effect they desire.
I’m at a near FAANG sized software company and the CEO literally tells us he knows we will take a hit to productivity. Even goes as far to say “we’re profitable, this isn’t about profitability, it’s about working together”.
This is after laying off almost 10% of the company earlier this year.
They just want to be able to pin the mega offices they own onto “expenses for employees” and make the chart look better. Line goes up and all.
Quality of life is worse, productivity is worse, it’s more expensive. It’s a nice way to increase costs.
So many positive reasons.
What Im realizing is that they still win even if the product gets worse. They don’t care about the product. They care about the short term gains that come from fucking around with their bottom line expenses and then presenting that to shareholders as value gain.
Modern day capitalism rewards nothing of value.
The CEO literally has only one duty, and its fiduciary duty to the stock holders.
They can be sued and removed if they’re not doing what’s best for the shares.
That’s the biggest problem in society these days as far as I’m concerned
Yup, incentives at publicly traded companies are way out of whack and its killing us all slowly
There’s just so much more value in “line goes up” than in “I make decent toasters”
Wow, yet another industry-trailing company showing why they are no longer relevant in big tech. They just sell overpriced garbage tech to other old, falling behind companies.
Yet another reason not to work for IBM (as if another one was necessary).
I have to assume somebody’s done a cost analysis on rto and determined that keeping their boots on our necks is more profitable in the long run than employees being happier and more productive.
This just layoffs with a different name.
And no severance payout
I have to assume somebody’s done a cost analysis
I don’t get why you assume there’s a cost analysis that could be accurate over the reported productivity increases of working remotely.
It’s likely the obvious, a change that isn’t good but it’s done anyway because people in a company often do not do what’s good for the company, they chase what’s good for them personally.
Yeah they’re going to drive down costs by having employees quit due to RTO 🤣
Gotta justify all those facilities expenses!
IBM’s so old they make money from leasing their properties.
My company has a mandatory 3 days in office policy already. However, they haven’t given any details about how it’s calculated.
If I have a vacation Monday & Tuesday do those count toward my days or not? If not what if I’m out Monday - Wednesday? We have unlimited PTO so there is no formal record keeping of my days off. How does my boss (or whoever is counting my days) factor in considering my PTO? If I did 5 days one week does that mean I could do 1 day the next week? What about traveling for work?
50 miles! What a shit commute.
