In Focus: IBM Expands Remote Work Ban

This week International Business Machines Corp. gave thousands of U.S.-based teleworkers a choice: Leave your home-based office and relocate to a regional one, or resign from IBM, The Wall Street Journal reported.While IBM is not the first company to rescind telework arrangements, it may be the first time a company that sells telework software has asked many of its remote employees to start working in its offices again.(The Wall Street Journal) "The company won’t say how many of its 380,000 employees are affected by the policy change," which so far has been rolled out to its Watson, software development, digital marketing, and design divisions, which employ tens of thousands of workers, Fox Business reports on its website.IBM sells products for companies with teleworkers, including one called Sametime—an instant-messaging voice and video chat software its own workers used. An advocate for telework, IBM’s Smarter Workforce Blog has an article  titled ‘Making Tele
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