Many news outlets are reporting that HP is pulling back on some of the telecommuting perks for its IT staffers, who are led by CIO luminary Randy Mott. “The IT organization has made a specific business decision to provide guidelines that locate more team members together in several core sites to facilitate face-to-face interaction and increase team effectiveness,” HP spokeswoman Emma Wischhusen said in a written response to questions from Computerworld. The number of employees affected by the change isn’t being disclosed, but it’s “a small fraction” of HP’s 150,000-employee workforce, she said in the CW article.
As you can see, the quotes seemed fairly canned, and there was no word from Mott, which generally means that HP is hoping this will go away because it’s known that the company has a solid employee-work-life-balance reputation. The article went on to say that HP will still continue to offer flexible work arrangements “where appropriate.”
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