As someone that was an IBM employee and still knows people that work at IBM I can tell you that this is mostly spin. Moving people to work from home is all about the mighty dollar. IBM saves quite a bit in expenses by having people work from home. Also, IBM doesn't really care that much about it's U.S. workforce as it is primarily interested in moving jobs to India. The last announced goal for the workforce in India is 40,000 employees. Little hiring is being done at all in the U.S. by IBM while attrition continually reduces the U.S. numbers.
The same could be applied to the predictability of most network produced news programs. Instead of a product it would be a topic and instead of an image association it would be a spin factor.
One topic associated with this AOL labor dispute is the use of beta testers by companies to test software. Beta testers are often not compensated further than being the first ones to see a new application but companies depend on them heavily to find application bugs.
Slashdot Mirror
Your tax dollars do not pay for vetting of the paper. Vetting the paper by peers is what still makes this a valuable service.
As someone that was an IBM employee and still knows people that work at IBM I can tell you that this is mostly spin. Moving people to work from home is all about the mighty dollar. IBM saves quite a bit in expenses by having people work from home. Also, IBM doesn't really care that much about it's U.S. workforce as it is primarily interested in moving jobs to India. The last announced goal for the workforce in India is 40,000 employees. Little hiring is being done at all in the U.S. by IBM while attrition continually reduces the U.S. numbers.
Computers Make Good News Program Execs:
The same could be applied to the predictability of
most network produced news programs. Instead of a product it would be a topic and instead of an image association it would be a spin factor.
One topic associated with this AOL labor dispute is the use of beta testers by companies to test software. Beta testers are often not compensated further than being the first ones to see a new application but companies depend on them heavily to find application bugs.