https://twitter.com/remotetools/status/1218167761525829634?s=21
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- aog - I WFH for IBM. Nobody’s ever said any of that to me. In fact my second line doesn’t WANT to see us working long hours. Perhaps I’m in one of the remaining parts of this company still run by humans.
- olh - your comment was id–tic.
I get emails from recruiters all the time for telecommuting positions. It's not like someone will uproot their family and move 3 states away when its for a 6 month contract to hire. You'd be a fool.
Remote work is used sparingly at FAANG companies. The offices are nice and people want to come in to the office. They are all very successful companies. They all have a younger staff profile. They pay competitively and give equity in the company to all employees.
Contrast that with IBM. IBM has a large amount of remote work. Employees are not motivated to go into the office and conditions vary widely. The company is failing in the longest bull market in history. The staff profile is old. The pay doesn’t match market and most employees aren’t given equity.
Fighting over remote work is only 1 small part of a huge broken ecosystem at IBM.
GTS never supplied us with cell phones, that's always been out of our pockets. Another reason to WFH.
Why can’t Americans realize that remote work is not a benefit and is just another way to push employees to work longer hours, uncompensated? “You have no commute now, so you have no excuse!” “Of course you can work when you’re sick, it’s not like you’re in an office spreading germs!” “You should have no issue answering phone calls past 10 pm, we gave you a cell phone and laptop do you can work from anywhere!”
It’s the same problem as giving employees perks like on site wellness centers, free food, etc. Thinly disguised as perks, really these are just ensuring an employee can work as long as possible, uncompensated. Employees need to do a better job of standing up to companies and challenging these alleged “perks” for what they really are.
You have to understand that people who grew up using "slide rules" do not understand how to use remote working. They don't know how to use remote working to make their company more successful. That's why other companies are passing them up.