Big blue's people no longer blue


	Big blue's people no longer blue

ghiberti

12-15-2006 6:19 AM

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ibm, morale, teleworkers, employment, homeworking, job, remoteworking, workforce, staff

ghiberti says:

Long (ish) article about the difficulties managing a remote/distributed workforce presents - worth a read

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                        good. Employees felt they lacked a strong connection to their peers, they were missing out on mentoring relationships, and
                        institutional knowledge wasn’t being passed down within the company, says Pelino, who today is general manager of IBM’s global
                        healthcare and life sciences business. Internally, employees joked that “IBM” stood for “I’m by myself,” he recalls.
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                        flexibility without sacrificing corporate culture?
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