Re: IBM is having a Yahoo moment: No more working from home

[Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>]

It sounds a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

IBM is a vast, surprisingly decentralized, enterprise so it's hard to 
sum up in simple terms. But if you poke around on ibm.com and browse the 
marketing material that's written by marketing people and not technical 
people, you'll find a lot of "I don't understand what this means" 
translated from English into marketing jargon.

Getting the writers to sit with other marketing people who don't 
understand what it means either isn't going to help with that.

If cutting payroll really is the unstated goal, this will work. A lot of 
good people who can leave will leave because they have options. Some 
staff who suspect they won't thrive on the job market will stay.

If the real target is lack of productivity from some remote workers, 
this is a ham-fisted way of going about it. It's a management problem 
that could be solved by better management.

> "I know this is hard ... But we have gotten to a place where
> we're excited about the path forward."

<retch>

Stuart

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