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[–] RonaldMcShitlord 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago  (edited ago)

In a video sent to to her troops last week – also covered by El Reg – IBM's marketing chief Michelle Peluso explained some of the thinking. She said it was "time for us to start bringing our teams together, more shoulder to shoulder". Peluso confirmed she was aware that turning their lives upside down will be "hard" for teleworkers at IBM, but she was convinced IBM had reached a "place where we're excited about the path forward". Affected staff we spoke to don't share that excitement.

Why is it always female execs doing stupid shit like this? This is code for: "I need a good reason to justify why I have a job and I'm getting paid ridiculous amounts of money, so let me inconvenience thousands of other people and I'l claim it's so that we can "rub shoulders" and "be a stronger team".

So fucking ridiculous.

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[–] GOMAD_OR_GFYAD 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It's a stealth layoff. Any telecommuters who are not pushovers will find a different job. The ones that remain are the kind of pushover staffers that will be happy to do their 9-5, be underpaid and will stay forever as long as they can do some light redditing on the job, and as long as there isn't too much stress or demands on their time to keep them from whatever bullshit trivial hobbies they engage in after work.

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[–] TheTrigger 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

Isn't this the same shit that the charlatan token vagina running Yahoo! did, shortly before it burned to the ground? Whelp, I know which stocks I'm short-selling this quarter.

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[–] RonaldMcShitlord 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Female executives at large companies always seem super interested in launching projects that have absolutely nothing to do with directly helping the business or increasing profits. It's always about some diversity/team building/feel good public relations campaign horseshit. Maybe because these women really are just token vaginas and have no mind for business, so they focus on just trying to gain attention for the irrelevant causes they invented out of thin air.