- US sales staff are the latest IBM workers to have received an RTO mandate
- They must work three days a week from offices or IBM sales centers
- Some workers based in Dallas will be moved to Austin in 2026
IBM would have promulgated a return policy to the mass office, forcing sales staff in the United States to work at least three days a week on a customer site, a flagship office or a sales center.
The news comes only a few days after the company told its American cloud employees to return to “strategic” locations (company offices) on similar conditions of three days a week.
In the case of IBM American cloud workers, they received until July 1 to join the new policy. The workers who need to move were cut a little more, until October 1 to find a new house. We do not know when the company’s sales staff must pass.
IBM workers have received a renewed RTO mandate
At first glance, the IBM office return to the office of IBM is more pleasant for those who are in favor of remote work and hybrid.
Three days have long been the average in a post-countryic world, but many giant colleagues in IBM technology, including Amazon, promulgated five-day full-time policies, completely marking work at a distance.
Through the United States, IBM has five flagship offices in New York, Raleigh, Washington DC and San Francisco. The fifth in Austin will be open by next year.
Eight other sales centers in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle are also available for work in person.
According to an internal memo by Adam Lawrence seen by The registerDallas -based digital sales workers will be moved to the new Austin office when it opened in 2026.
Lawrence invoiced the move of RTO as an “return initiative to customers”, suggesting that the sales staff must be closer to customers to secure sales.
Unchanted an initialism for “I was moved”, IBM has a long history of workers’ moving, but the posts were relatively stable in the company in the big scheme of things.
Apart from around 1,000 layoffs in August 2024 concerning the closure of an R&D department in China, the only other IBM employment drop in January 2023, when 3,900 lost their jobs. Only a handful of much smaller discounts have since followed.
Via The register
