The global employees in the software division of Armonk-headquartered IBM (NYSE:IBM) are facing a mandate to report to their offices for a minimum of three days a week.
In a blog post published last week authored by IBM Software’s Kareem Yusuf, senior vice president for product management, and Dinesh Nirmal, senior vice president for products, all IBM Software employees were informed they “will be required to spend at least 3 days in the office each week. The decision on which days will be left to managers and individual project teams.”
The blog post added that the mandate will initially apply to employees living within 50 miles of an IBM office, while those who live more than 50 miles from their offices are “exempt at this time” from the requirement.
“It is vital to our culture and our shared goals ”” tripling development output, building winning products, and winning new clients ”” that we spend more meaningful time together, in-person,” the blog post noted, adding that one in four IBM Software employees were working in the office three days a week before the mandate was announced.
The mandate was first reported in the tech news site The Register.
