[RoosterRedux]

Stupid move IMO. Most commutes cost workers an hour or 2 a day...not to mention the automobile expenses and danger in traffic.

Going to the office can't improve collaboration in the nascent world of VR.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Uht-Oh. I have a number of friends that work from home and they love it.

This is NOT going to go over well for those working for IBM, I’m thinking.

[Vendome]

Stupid.

When HP ends this I’ll be interested to understand why...

[Mr. K]

That’s a shame.

I do LOT of work from home and I am way more productive. Get up, and my desk is 15 steps away.

I am working AS I am making coffee. The trick is to still shower and get prepared just like if you have to drive in- because you might have to.

Then you get to your desk and get organized before anyone is even in the office. And I am usually the first one online ready with questions (and answers) before other people come online.

[Snickering Hound]

"I'll just stay home. And I'm keeping the 5150 and dot matrix printer."

[GingisK]

It seems odd that IBM even exists anymore. They don't make any "Business Machines" like they used to make.

Many moons ago I passed on an opportunity to work for them because they wanted to choke me every day with a tie. That was the same period of time when they were actually something special.

[Zathras]

Ginni Rometty is NOT held in high regard at IBM.
Reminds me of how they felt about Carly Forina at HP.
Only hired for gender and not for skills.

IBM is already building a track record of stabbing people in the back to meet $$$ targets.
This is NOT going to help them.

[CodeToad]

Good. Work from home simply means lazy employees not willing to so much as go to an office. Remote communications is a joke and extremely ineffective. The individual might think they get more done at home but no one else does.

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[HarleyD]

I loved remote work. I remember the first time I worked at home I brought 3 days of work home with me and was done by noon. It was surprising how much work I could accomplish at home.

That being said, I also know several who would abuse the system. You could always tell by how quickly they would respond to email.

I suspect too much abuse.

[KarlInOhio]

IBM markets software and services for what it calls "the anytime, anywhere workforce,"

Will the "anytime" end at 5 PM, or will employees still be tethered to their phones for 24 hours a day?

[Gay State Conservative]

Having spent my entire career in health care,an industry not well suited to “home work” (at least not my positions),I don’t know much about this general subject.However,while I can see a large company like IBM wanting staff to be in the office at least occasionally (meetings,seminars,training) doing away with “home work” completely doesn’t seem to make sense.

[plain talk]

Ah... collaboration — the latest buzz phrase with the floor space nerds in technical companies. Move them back into a regional office where they can all get on separate conference calls and visit with their co-workers around the coffee pot a few times a day. :-). But don’t give them offices — that is too confined. Put them out on the floor jammed together so the “collaboration” of voices on separate conference calls sound like a third rate call center. I’m sure there is a Dilbert cartoon for this fad.

[PAR35]

I wonder if there is an information security issue at work. Keep all the data inside the firewall instead of on thousands of computers scattered around the country.

[Personal Responsibility]

As a full time virtual employee, this is a stupid move. I get MUCH more done working at home than I ever did in an office. Not even close.

[clee1]

BIG mistake,IBM

[1_Inch_Group]

LOL

380,000 people that have become used to not dressing before work, not showering regularly, and setting their own schedule.

Yeah, that’s gonna re-integrate to office life easily.

[King Moonracer]

I get a lot more done at home rather than being endlessly interrupted by people with oral diarrhea. People suck.

[King Moonracer]

I get a lot more done at home rather than being endlessly interrupted by people with oral diarrhea. People suck.