- US sales personnel are the last IBM workers to receive a RTO mandate
- They must work three days a week from IBM offices or sales centers
- Some workers based in Dallas will be relocated to Austin in 2026
According to reports, IBM has promulgated a massive policy back to the office, ordering US sales personnel to work at least three days a week in a client site, an flagship office or a sales center.
The news occurs a few days after the company told its US cloud employees to return to “strategic” (company offices) in similar terms of three days per week.
In the case of the US cloud workers of IBM, they have been given until July 1 to adhere to the new policy. The workers who need to relocate have been cut a little more loose, until October 1 to find a new home. It is not clear when the company’s sales personnel will have to move.
IBM workers received a renewed mandate RTO
At first glance, the policy returning to the IBM office is on the most pleasant side for those in favor of remote and hybrid work.
Three days it has long been the average in a world after pandemic, however, many of IBM’s giant colleagues, including Amazon, have promulgated five -time full -time policies, marking the end of remote work completely.
Throughout the United States, IBM has five emblematic offices in New York, Raleigh, Washington DC and San Francisco. The fifth, in Austin, will be open for 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 memorandum of Adam Lawrence seen by The registrationDigital sales workers based in Dallas will be relocated to the new Austin office when it opens in 2026.
Lawrence announced the movement of RTO as a “return to the client initiative”, which suggests that sales personnel must be closer to customers to ensure sales.
Coincidentally referred as an initialism for ‘I have been transferred’, IBM has a long history of relocation of workers, however, the positions have been relatively stable in the company in the great scheme of things.
In addition to around 1,000 layoffs in August 2024 related to the closure of a China R&D department, the only other IBM employment cut was in January 2023, when 3,900 lost their jobs. Only a handful of much smaller reductions have continued since then.
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