RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – IBM – parent of Raleigh-based Red Hat – will not mandate workers to return to the office as long as on-premise attendance continues to grow, IBM (NYSE IBM) Chair and CEO Arvind Krishna says.
Red Hat recently declared return-to-office as an option.
Speaking an a conference Thursday in New York, Krishna said U.S. workers were back in the office at nearly 50% of the time, according to a report from Bloomberg News. He would like to see that figure hit 60%, Bloomberg noted.
‘Majority’ of Red Hat employees don’t have to return to cubicles under ‘office-flex’ plan
However Krishan did not that company culture was harder to maintain with so many workers out of the office.
On a positive note, he said productivity hadn’t been hurt.
IBM operates one of its largest corporate campuses in RTP and employs thousands of people across N.C.
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