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Re:IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for clo... by MisterBastahrd on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:30AM (#43728998)
They're bending the knee. The CEO class loves their own freedom to move about at will but hates the idea that workers have the right to just NOT be in the office. Trump, Musk, and Ramiswamy were all ultra-gung ho about ensuring that as many people with federal jobs were as miserable as possible.
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Re:IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for clo... by andsoitis on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:36AM (#43729068)
> The CEO class loves their own freedom to move about at will but hates the idea that workers have the right to just NOT be in the office.

I don’t know that that is a reasonable take. More appropriate would be to acknowledge that different roles have different needs, depending on who you collaborate with, etc.

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Re:IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for clo... by markus_zhang on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:48AM (#43729191)
Apparently my role could be remote but the company took it away.

I don't think we need to give their good wills. They are just using the economic reality to fuck us, and I'm sure many of us are considering fucking back when the stars are right.

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Re:IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for clo... by mitthrowaway2 on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:10PM (#43729396)
> different roles have different needs, depending on who you collaborate with, etc.

At one FAANG company where the CEO is pushing for RTO, it's mandatory regardless of whether all the people you collaborate with are in other offices across the country, and your manager has no power to offer an exemption even when they fully agree that there's no reason for you to be at the office.

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Re:IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for clo... by diogoadrados on Friday April 18, 2025 @01:24PM (#43730077)
out of a handful of the largest companies in the world, in a thread about the specific company IBM and its policies, why do you avoid naming the company and CEO?
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