In the 1980s, IBM started placing “remote terminals” in the homes of some of its employees. By 2009, 40 percent of the company’s 386,000 employees no longer needed to turn up to an office each day. Forward to 2017, and IBM is traveling back in time. Thousands of employees are being told they have to start working from set locations, or wave goodbye to their jobs. The irony is hard to ignore. Just this year, an IBM panel discussion mirrored the findings of a 2014 whitepaper from IBM’s own Smarter Workplace Institute: “The remote workers in this research were highly…
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