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IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company (www.bloomberg.com)

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IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company::International Business Machines Corp. delivered a companywide ultimatum to managers who are still working remotely: move near an office or leave the company.

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[-] Yewb@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

What does IBM even do anymore?

[-] sleepmode@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

They buy competitors with a good product and put their name on it.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And then they don't know what to do with the product for decades. E. g.: Notes.

[-] havocpants@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Hang on, they said good products

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 9 months ago

Notes was OK, besides the shitty UI.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah.... that is a big part of the thing.

Also, hiding emails/notes from users with some bad wannabe AI was a neat frustration.

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 19 points 9 months ago

Makes bank on it's name from 60 years ago. That's about it. Genuinely.

[-] yggdar@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

They are very busy charging an arm and a leg for crappy software with shit support.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago

They're furiously milking redhat to death, for starters.

[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

To be fair, being milked to death doesn't seem that bad. I've seen those videos.

[-] nUbee@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Patent trolling.

[-] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

They're still a big name in mainframes and are also a cloud hyperscaler, and they offer software development and consulting. They do a lot of research in AI and quantum computing, and even blockchain a few years ago. But altogether just a shadow of what they once were. I used to work there when Lenovo took over ThinkPad production and the hard drive business was phasing out. I couldn't imagine being there now.

[-] Dlayknee@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

cloud hyperscaler

I know you're technically right, but their "cloud" is the weirdest offering I have ever seen

[-] lud@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

A lot of stuff but mostly software these days.

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