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IBM Says No to Home Work
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Posted on 05/21/2017 1:57:15 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

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To: Vince Ferrer

I work for IBM and almost all of my people are in India.


61 posted on 05/21/2017 5:21:45 PM PDT by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I worked for an engineering company that did something similar. A few designers (I mean a few) were taking 3 hour lunches on the clock. HR delayed action on this instead of terminating these people post haste, in order to lay the heavy head trip on everyone. No one was allowed to leave the building during lunch. And there was a time limit for travel from one office location to another, and that time limit was not disclosed, people getting docked because of traffic, trains, etc. This is not showing up for work late, this is traveling across Houston for meetings, etc. Add to that the HR rep shows up at meetings lecturing professionals (trying to get project work done at these meetings) like we were all third graders.

I do not see a bright future for that company.


62 posted on 05/21/2017 5:23:35 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: King Moonracer

When I worked at a small company (as small as 3 people at times), I got most of my “office” work done at home. PLC programming, CAD drawings, vendor calls and equipment bid evaluations, etc. I only went to the office for meetings and systems testing, plus some wiring work.
Of course I was also a principal at the company.


63 posted on 05/21/2017 5:29:04 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: CodeToad

I’ve worked remote for 15+ years and have always been one the most productive people (measurable) in the companies I’ve worked for

I put in an average of 10-11 hours a day effectively. ...an hour or two commute each day would just be lost time


64 posted on 05/21/2017 5:35:37 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: al baby

Lol, I only freep at work when I take a crap. The blessings of owning a tablet.


65 posted on 05/21/2017 5:40:39 PM PDT by King Moonracer (I wish I had the Tantulus field, but I'd probably wear it out.)
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To: CodeToad

The industry has moved to a global workforce spread across the world. If people can work across continents, they can work outside a big office. Face to face can be nice sometime, but i disagree with you that means that work from home can’t work.


66 posted on 05/21/2017 5:58:04 PM PDT by csivils
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To: RoosterRedux

Bank of America did the same last year. I’m convinced it was a form of attrition.


67 posted on 05/21/2017 5:59:56 PM PDT by SC_Republican (Has it really been THAT long??)
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To: Personal Responsibility

Agree 100%.


68 posted on 05/21/2017 6:03:02 PM PDT by SC_Republican (Has it really been THAT long??)
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To: RoosterRedux

Test


69 posted on 05/21/2017 6:14:56 PM PDT by Beckett2727
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To: Snickering Hound

Who puts a printer UNDER the desk? Especially while wielding a cancer stick?

How long would that printer survive, covered in cigarette ashes?


70 posted on 05/21/2017 6:17:21 PM PDT by thulldud
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To: csivils
If people can work across continents, they can work outside a big office.

Exactly. C-suite speak with forked tongue.

71 posted on 05/21/2017 6:38:19 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: csivils

the vast majority of people lack the discipline to actually work at home

if they don’t work at work, how can they be expected to work at home?


72 posted on 05/21/2017 6:42:19 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (the long night is over)
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To: RoosterRedux

Awesome way to lose talent, IBM. Ask Yahoo!


73 posted on 05/21/2017 6:45:10 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: CodeToad

Complete BS. Work metrics, instant messenger and telephone provide more than adequate surveillance that an employee is carrying his/her load.


74 posted on 05/21/2017 6:48:17 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: RoosterRedux

My team is scattered throughout the country. Hardly interact with the closest ones. No point in commuting just to spend the day using remote communications anyway. BTW major company.


75 posted on 05/21/2017 7:04:31 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: SC_Republican

You’re probably right; this is probably the first step in determining exactly what each person is doing, and looking for cuts afterwards.


76 posted on 05/21/2017 7:05:11 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: HarleyD

A friend works remotely one day each week; depending on the type of work, I’d think few jobs get more productivity with 100% remote work. Some workers just don’t have the discipline to be effective without close supervision.

A friend described a co-worker who had a link from her office PC to a camera in her daughter’s daycare; I couldn’t imagine having someone like that work for me. They aren’t working; they are remotely raising the child.


77 posted on 05/21/2017 7:12:45 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Kid Shelleen
They probably have few people abusing the system so instead of cracking down on the slackers they are going to take the cowardly way out and end it.

Yup. Part of the corporate culture of a dying corporation; gutlessness.

Many companies are like IBM. Countries too, for that matter. They start out with developing a new technology for that time, they grow, they may even dominate an industry for a time. But over time, the bureaucracy within the company grows and with it ossification begins to set in. They often are then stuck on their own past success, as was the case with IBM being stuck in mainframe thinking when the PC came on the scene.

These companies become afraid of change and the people within the company, or country, then want to protect the status quo; because they are the status quo. Newer companies come along (Apple, Microsoft) seize the initiative and the market. The old companies like IBM at this point are incapable of adapting to a rapidly changing world. They've reached an apogee and are on decent.

78 posted on 05/21/2017 7:21:47 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: RoosterRedux
In my dept there are a few who work from home. Most of us work in cubicles in sector 7G in California. After the last one asked for permission and got it due to their moving out of state, the boss said no more can work from home. The person leaving will save $200 a month in gas cost plus wear and tear on the car plus you cannot be late to work. They will look better too, the kind of look you have being on vacation plus having no co-workers to annoy them. The state they are going to is Arizona so no state taxes either. They will be able to buy a house cheap too. Bosses like being able to walk over and talking to you. See example.

Blnk
79 posted on 05/21/2017 7:23:34 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: GingisK

#7 I was at a gas station in downtown Minneapolis in the early 1980’s when I noticed a building across the street with many people coming out as it was noon. The guys all looked the same with white suit and tie. It was a IBM building.
I was hired at ATT in 1998 to a call center for their internet service provider business. You were required to wear a tie even though no one but your co-workers saw you.
I quit for 4 reasons on the 5th day.
1. No parking, you had to drive around and around the block to find a spot. After a year they allowed you to park in the lot....
2. Wearing a tie
3. During our training one of the people asked what the turn over is. A question I never heard of before. The answer was 10% a month!
4. I was hired at another job for $1.50/hr more : )
That job eventually turned into the one I got now and I am making nearly 3 times more money.

I do not wear a tie either!
Just casual clothes and on Friday I get to wear jeans!


80 posted on 05/21/2017 7:35:41 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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