Of all the RTO orders, part of this at least makes sense. If you're in sales, it's beneficial to be close to your clients.
But if you're working on cloud, hard to see how working at the office is any more productive than from home.
also, this is significant:
> The employee shuffling has been accompanied by rolling layoffs in the US, but hiring in India – there are at least 10x as many open IBM jobs in India as there are in any other IBM location, according to the corporation's career listings. And earlier this week, IBM said it "is setting up a new software lab in Lucknow," India.
It's not that complicated. If you fire all the 35-60 year olds you get sued. However, if you tell everyone ages 20-60 that they have to move, you will get a disproportionate number of people 35-60 refusing to move - and it's legal. They have kids in school, they are married, they have a house, etc. They are also making more money. Telling teams to RTO especially to move to do so is one of the simplest cost saving tricks any tech company has.
But if you're working on cloud, hard to see how working at the office is any more productive than from home.
also, this is significant:
> The employee shuffling has been accompanied by rolling layoffs in the US, but hiring in India – there are at least 10x as many open IBM jobs in India as there are in any other IBM location, according to the corporation's career listings. And earlier this week, IBM said it "is setting up a new software lab in Lucknow," India.