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[quote=Anonymous]They used to say IBM stood for I’ve Been Moved.  But the whole company went to shit in the late 80s when they laid off all the experienced people to save money and started carving up the company into spin offs.

They do have an office in Bethesda because I’ve seen it.  I think it’s been there decades.  So it’s not just Poughkeepsie, Raleigh and Minneapolis.

The Poughkeepsie office was historically R&D, not really sales.  I think the same for Minneapolis.

Anyway, I often find that these RTO calls have a lot of carve outs for people with different circumstances.  So if there’s no office near him, and he is serving clients that are near his current home, they may just exempt him—particularly if he was remote prior to pandemic.

The larger problem is that a lot of more junior or lower level employees are not doing well with all the managers being remote.  Remote work just isn’t working that well for those dolls in a lot of industries.  Law firms are having this problem—the senior people could all do their work perfectly well remotely, but then the junior lawyers don’t get adequate mentoring and the paralegals and staff really aren’t good at doing things remote.  No one wants to say that only the lower level people come back  to work.[/quote]

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