https://americanbazaaronline.com/2025/03/31/ibm-to-layoff-thousands-of-us-employees/
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we were told here in europe they check: 1. what you write in tools (record presence in the office vs wfh), 2. badge swipe, 3. connections to ibm wifi
They had cases where one person swiped badges from multiple people and they discovered this.. Fun times...
“ and management has allegedly denied medical exemptions."
I have a one year medical RTO exception approved by corporate, and have had no trouble with it. I’m in the NYC metro area. I had an internal organ transplant last year and am immunocompromised due to anti rejection dr-gs. Not safe to be in a huge building with 1000+ infection vectors. This is one of those rare cases of IBM doing something right in the 21st century.
Pretty much.
I usually don’t even turn my laptop on. Drive to the office, park, get into the office, steal some chips and office supply, then drive back home immediately. I pick up my lunch on the way back.
I am about 15 minutes from the office when there is no traffic (11am).
Most IBM managers stated that IBM is not even able to collect badge in information. And IBM will certainly not spend any $$$ to fix that.
So, I am thinking about stopping going to the office altogether.
So can someone go in , take a teams call and go home ?
Yes, no badge out, only badge in. Need to start pooling badges and send one guy to the office to badge in all and then go home.
why not just shutter all the buildings after laying off everyone except for Armonk and don't pay the the rent ? IBM can save a bundle by doing that. But it's a one time reduction in expenses only. WFH is the best answer - managers can just lay off employees via the Webex or on Slack, even thought it's kind of tacky. But, don't they do that now ?
Good thing we don’t have to badge out. :-)