Subj : IBM orders workers back to the office, or face the consequences
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri Apr 18 2025 14:45:09

IBM orders workers back to the office, or face the consequences

Date:
Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:42:00 +0000

Description:
IBM tells US Cloud and sales staff to work from the office at least three 
days per week.

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sales staff are the latest IBM workers to be given an RTO mandate They must 
work three days per week from IBMs offices or sales hubs Some Dallas-based 
workers will be relocated to Austin in 2026 

IBM has reportedly enacted a mass return-to-office policy, mandating US sales 
staff to work at least three days a week at a client site, flagship office or 
sales hub. 

The news comes just days after the company told its US Cloud employees to 
return to strategic locations (company offices) on similar three-day-per-week 
terms. 

In the case of IBMs US Cloud workers, theyve been given until July 1 to 
adhere to the new policy. Workers needing to relocate have been cut a little 
more slack, with until October 1 to find a new home. Its unclear when the 
companys sales staff will need to move by. IBM workers given renewed RTO 
mandate 

On the face of it, IBMs return-to-office policy is on the nicer side for 
those in favor of remote and hybrid working. 

Three days has long been the average in a post-pandemic world, however many 
of IBMs fellow tech giants, including Amazon, have enacted full-time five-day 
policies, marking an end to remote working altogether. 

Across the US, IBM has five flagship offices in New York, Raleigh, Washington 
DC and San Francisco. The fifth, in Austin, will be open by next year. 

A further eight sales hubs in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbus, 
Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle are also available for in-person work. 

According to an internal memo by Adam Lawrence seen by The Register , 
Dallas-based Digital Sales workers will be relocated to the new Austin office 
when it opens in 2026. 

Lawrence billed the RTO move as a return to client initiative, suggesting 
that sales staff need to be closer to clients to secure sales. 

Casually referred to as an initialism for Ive Been Moved, IBM has a long 
history of relocating workers, however positions have been relatively stable 
at the company in the grand scheme of things. 

Apart from around 1,000 layoffs in August 2024 relating to the closure of a 
China R&D department, IBMs only other big job cut was in January 2023, when 
3,900 lost their jobs. Only a handful of much smaller reductions have 
followed since then. 

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