IBM Layoffs by Return to Office (RTO): Making Workers Miserable to Make Them Leave, Not Receive Any Compensation
Coming shortly: RTO Deadline Is Thursday Aug 1st
At least for Software. The RTO mandate that came down in January for managers and execs, requiring that they be relocated to a "strategic site" by Aug 1st. How many are going to start vanish over the next few weeks?
I know there's a lot of hate for managers here lol but a few of us are actually decent and do care about our colleagues ("reports").
I have multiple decades with this company, so it's a sad ending to what was once a great story. I will dearly miss everyone that I work with, but I'm relieved that I won't be having to endure yet another round of laying off incredible people by this clown-show of "leadership".
I am hopeful that somehow Arvind, Rob, and others of the pack leave IBM and that the company can once again become something great.
Good luck to all of you remaining. We have some of the most loyal, dedicated, smart, and hardworking people - all of whom deserve so much more than what than this"leadership" under Arvind and Rob. It's a shame what they've done to all of us and IBM.
This is an ongoing discussion. "WoW! I guess they weren't bluffing this time!" says the first comment. It then says:
Good riddance to bad rubbish ! Most managers (97% and higher) inside IBM have ZERO ethics and will throw their employees and reports under the bus when it comes to a layoff. I have yet to hear of a single instance where an IBM manager stood up for the employee or did anything significant to save the employee from a layoff in recent history (in the last 3 years). Blame it on the clown show senior management at IBM. US Managers get what they asked for as shareholders and it good to find they have targets on their backs also.So go ahead and shed your crocodile tears as you leave after decades...it's not misplaced hate for managers. If you survived this long, you likely threw a lot of good people under the bus to keep your job. Your posting even alludes to this. Some might call it the survival of the fittest...it is what it is.
Hasta la vista, Baby.
RTO has long been an HR trick. They try to downplay layoffs. They say people just "left".
This is also applicable to Red Hat.