IMHO, IBM did not make this decision in a vacuum, but established metrics that defined the productivity of these home workers, as less than desirable.
Or IBM needs to have layoffs and instead of offering severance packages tells telecommuters to now commute all the way to a regional office
Now they don't have to offer severance. Mo money, mo money, mo money
>IMHO, IBM did not make this decision in a vacuum, but established metrics that defined the productivity of these home workers, as less than desirable.
I tend to think same. I also suspect they will exceptions for the exceptional few. Exceptional case do exist. Obviously.
“but established metrics that defined the productivity of these home workers, as less than desirable.”
I found through experience that a few days a week for some type of employees, such as computer programmers, is very productive, but any more than that and communications is usually delayed and that delays projects.
So, yes, I expect IBM did do a time survey and found work at home employees were overall less productive.