What’s the point of mandating executives and managers to RTO if the teams they manage don’t need to do the same? Obviously this is a ploy to reduce managerial headcount without having to pay severance costs…anyone with half a brain can see this for what it is.
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It is already the case in SWG for non-managers... so, not sure what you are talking about? May be IBM Consulting? The office I am going to in Georgia is already full every day...
Hearing rumors now this mandate will be released to all employees by March 1st. Anyone else hearing this?
too many managers... at least 25% need to go... let's get it done!
Just for nostalgia's sake, I'm curious what IBM real estate still exists after the Kyndryl split. IBM was already in the process of shrinking Austin, RTP and Boulder when I left, and the Kyndryl split would have vastly reduced the number of spare desks and data center space. So the only remaining spaces are either the plant sites or the sales offices. I don't see many consultants sitting at the plant sites (reserved for HW and SW manfacturing and development), nor do I see them sitting at Research sites. That leaves the sales offices, which are minimal in both size (a few seats) and number (lots have been closed over the years). There might still be space at CHQ, but who wants to go to NY? Didn't they announce Southbury CT being sold or closed or something? That's even less space.
Non-managers have already received RTO orders in consulting and F&O at least in some, if not all departments. I'm guessing we need the dust to settle on the managers so they have enforcement coverage when the non-manager order goes out.
It is only a matter of time before a RTO email is sent out for all non-managers. Probably after most of the managers that refused to move, or left for another job so that there will be room to fit everyone else in what remains of the very few IBM offices that remain after the Kyndryl split.
Maybe they think managers have less than half a brain (sorry, I couldn’t resist!)