Posted on 01/19/2024 11:30:57 AM PST by ShadowAce
Employee: Can I come to work in my flip flops, shorts and beach shirt? And can I use my same padded heel rest on the desk top when I recline?
Boss: Well, as you are a vice president we’ll think about it.
Late last summer they ordered everybody back to work, either at home base or the nearest satellite office, including folks they formerly told could work remotely and who had moved in the interim.
A bunch of long timers with decades of knowledge left or retired. The ones who were too far from even a satellite quit and got new jobs. Productivity went into the tank (which proved lucrative for me as having to come in and fix things now gives me much more leverage on the price tag).
Long story short, they've cancelled the second and third waves of return to work they had planned, and have even had to close some of the satellites due to operating expenses of trying to keep them open.
For those that returned already, it's gone from 5 days a week required to 3, and now to 2.
But the damage is already done. The smart folks are leaving or retiring, and I'm not at all impressed with the millennial and Gen Z types whose messes I'm cleaning up after now. (but thanks for the new boat!)
Not worth the paper they aren't printed on.
Almost universally.They can be useful if you need monkeys to do rote work.
If IT hates you, the end user likes you.
wrong color to be the IBM DEI Manager...must be the IBM ESG manager
I find quite a number of online courses that work well for those who are interested in the subject.
The classic examples would be to watch you-tube lessons from Richard Feynman or Milton Friedman.
That’s often the case.
“research published earlier this week by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, remote work has no significant effect on productivity.”
Managers of the CRE portfolio at Blackstone were not available for comment.
When I was in the office, sitting in my little half-cubicle, listening to my co-workers yell to their speakerphones in a meeting, interrupting everyone else, losing my concentration, etc--I was STILL working remotely.
My job consists of building, securing, and maintaining servers in a datacenter. Those datacenters were no on the same floor as I was. Most of them weren't even in the same building.
The only difference between then and now as far as my job goes, is I no longer have to commute in one of the world's worst traffic cities, and I'm saving some wear and tear on my vehicles.
Some jobs are telecommuting whether you're in the office or not.
Corporate started it with covid to it’s their own fault.
“Not at IBM.
There are no placeholders at IBM on their design team.”
That’s what placeholder think.
“Working from home is not as efficient and productivity suffers.”
That’s not what the numbers say.
My experience too. We had office all over the planet and few people were at my location.
“That’s not what the numbers say.”
“The numbers” can be fudged to say whatever the statistician wants them to say. Always.
“I don’t care what any of these telecommuting workers say. They do not work as much at home as they would have to actually at a workplace, period.”
BS, period. Study after study showed a remarkable improvement to productivity.
I had a few people tell me early on that the world would never go back to forcing people into the office. I told each of them that as soon as companies realized they could RIF people without needing to follow WARN guidelines simply by mandating return to workplace requirements, we’d see a change. Once the economy turned and the Dems could no longer count on woke companies to fraudulently prop up their workforce, they’d use this ruse to lay people off. IBM was an early innovator in remote work...sad to see how far they’ve fallen.
Same number used inhouse and for telecommuting.
I just don’t believe it. The studies are biased
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