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Dare ObasanjoWhenever I see a headline like this I now assume theyβll have layoffs in a few months because not enough people quit.
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π― And remember this: IBM is the OG Borg.
lambtor@carnage4life next is offering severance packages, but they won't do that. because there's no financial case for requiring on-prem attendance.
Tobin Baker@carnage4life In IBM's case, they might have genuine cause to worry about remote workers slacking off.
James π¦ #FBPE 
@carnage4life Remarkable how unlibertarian giant corporations can be sometimes ain't it?
zeruch@carnage4life in IBMs case, it will inevitably be a horror show because they can never calibrate their RIFs to any business plan changes, just "we need to drop X amount of weight for the plane to fly with investors another 3 months"
Bill PleinπΆ@carnage4life Reminds me of a past IBM action. In the early 90s they encouraged remote work. They downsized their secondary office space (saving rent). Then they decided later that the route to more profits was to force out older higher paid workers. Tell everyone they have to come to the office, alienating older workers who moved away from cities to raise kids or live in the country. Profit!
Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - πΌ@carnage4life The new people to replace them don't want to work in person either.
Hiring workers remotely and then baiting and switching them is bogus.
Lockpick Extreme@carnage4life AT&T is doing the same thing. Long-time employees who have always worked in their state are being told they have to move at their own expense to one of the few locations to show up for their job or get fired.
Colin Dean@carnage4life this is business as usual for IBM going back decades.
IBM = I've Been Moved
The company shut down its #Pittsburgh Watson office in an action like this a few years ago.
Wilson@carnage4life This way they can have people with skills that allow them to find another good job leaving in greater number than the others
M0KHR@carnage4life This is IBM's way of getting older folk to quit. They're at it for a long time now.
Closing branch offices and enforcing relocation with minimum support is more damaging to people with families than single younger folk, hence they manage to get rid of their older folk w/o many discrimination suits.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/02/age_kyndryl_ibm/
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/21/ibm_age_discrimination/
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/04/ibm_settles_more_discrimination_claims/
Cysio 
β@carnage4life that's why I'm glad that I had "remote" written into my contract, so that if they wanted to change that they had to let me go, I called their bluff and they backtracked
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! π₯@carnage4life
That's usually the case, yes!
That's usually the case, yes!
JL Johnson 
@carnage4life employees to IBMβ¦ ππ»
Mike Edwards@carnage4life Or... they'll (also) fire the folks that complied after they've moved near the office
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-01-26/video-game-companies-make-workers-relocate-then-fire-them
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-01-26/video-game-companies-make-workers-relocate-then-fire-them
