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HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You

Posted by Soulskill on from the p.s.-you're-all-slackers dept.

McGruber writes "AllThingsD has the news that Hewlett-Packard has enacted a policy requiring most employees to work from the office and not from home. According to an undated question-and-answer document distributed to HP employees, the new policy is aimed at instigating a cultural shift that 'will help create a more connected workforce and drive greater collaboration and innovation.' The memo also said, 'During this critical turnaround period, HP needs all hands on deck. We recognize that in the past, we may have asked certain employees to work from home for various reasons. We now need to build a stronger culture of engagement and collaboration and the more employees we get into the office the better company we will be.' One major complication is that numerous HP offices don't have sufficient space to accommodate all of their employees. According to sources familiar with the company's operations, as many as 80,000 employees, and possibly more, were working from home in part because the company didn't have desks for them all within its own buildings."

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  1. Figures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just when I finally got rid of all my pants.

    1. Re:Figures by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 4, Funny

      I wouldn't sweat it - there's a lot of Unix shops around. I assume you can grow a beard?

  2. Re:Not happened, probably can't, most likely won't by __aaltlg1547 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, so you still think you work for HP?

  3. Re:Runnin' on Empty... by sjames · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those deck chairs aren't going to move themselves...

  4. Re:Runnin' on Empty... by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 5, Funny

    Feeding their dog? Walking around in their underwear? Reading Slashdot?

    Don't that's going to cut it at the office. :)

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  5. Shut up Meg by Cito · · Score: 3, Funny

    :-)

  6. Re:Runnin' on Empty... by Ziest · · Score: 5, Funny


    It's 2:00AM, some "very important server" has just gone down.

    [Pointy Headed Management]"We have to get this server working or we'll lose millions an hour"

    To which I would reply: "I thought you moved all those jobs it India so that we could have a 'Follow the Sun' model and none of us would have to woken out of a sound sleep, Bangalor will take care of it. Well, what happend to that plan?"

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  7. Re:Runnin' on Empty... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nissan motor company. But they also had a CEO that could execute. With a katana if necessary.

  8. Re:Runnin' on Empty... by rastos1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Move? I heard about a guy that throws them! Across the room! He is also free for hire now.

  9. Re:RIP by c · · Score: 5, Funny

    The HP Way died on a dark winter's day in 1999, when Bill Hewlett experienced a failure of willpower reminiscent of the fall of Isildur, and failed to drown Carly Fiorina in his swimming pool.

    Well, that's perfectly understandable. If her effect on the pool water quality was anything like what she did to HP, he'd have been stuck with 30000 gallons of toxic waste in his backyard.

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