Quora goes permanently remote-first

Re:Quora goes permanently remote-first by toyg on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:51AM (#23650943)

That’s basically the model IBM was actively pursuing in the 90s-00s (no idea whether they still do). They ran a bunch of studies in the previous decades, showing the various trade-offs involved into office locations; eventually they decided the best overall policy was to prefer mid-size offices in suburban settings, away from business districts and other high-density areas. At one point I think they had an outright ban on new city-centre offices.

(Or at least this is what I was told when I was a contractor for them in the mid-00s in Europe, wondering why they avoided getting a single building in Manchester city centre and spread over two separate locations in the surrounding suburbs instead.)

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Re:Quora goes permanently remote-first by ghaff on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:46AM (#23651358)

HQ is in Armonk which is Westchester County. Somers (since sold) and Poughkeepsie are there as well as is IBM Research at Yoktown Heights. Raleigh is in an industrial park (RTP). I'm by no means familiar with all of IBM's locations but, yes, many of them are suburban. IBM also sold their building in Manhattan in the 90s though they may still have some space there; they did when I last visited but that was quite a while ago. Most of the IBM people I work with work remotely.

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Re:Quora goes permanently remote-first by wjamesg on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:17PM (#23658743)

I’m not sure RTP qualifies as “an industrial park” but suburban, sure

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