IBM Issues Return to Office Mandate
In a staff memo acquired by The Register, IBM has also told its employees that they will soon be required to come into the office at least three days per week. More specifically, employees were told “to work at least three days a week from the client location where their assigned territory decision-makers work, a flagship office, or a sales hub.”
Unlike Google, IBM isn’t as open to being flexible with employees who live 50 miles from a compatible location, and is offering relocation fees for those outside of that range, instead of simply allowing them to continue working from home.
IBM has been slowly moving towards a less remote workforce over the last few months, instructing managers earlier this year that they need to return to the office or be fired.
Fortunately, IBM has quite a few locations that could work for employees, including flagship offices in New York, Austin, Raleigh, Washington DC, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and sales hubs in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Seattle.