IBM boss Arvind Krishna says remote working can harm career

IBM, which is nicknamed Big Blue, has a stock market value of $112 billion and 260,000 employees worldwide
IBM, which is nicknamed Big Blue, has a stock market value of $112 billion and 260,000 employees worldwide
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Constantly working from home hurts your career, according to the boss of IBM.

Arvind Krishna, its chairman and chief executive, said the technology group worked “better when we are together in person” and that he was encouraging employees to return to the office three days a week.

“In the short term, you probably can be equally productive, but your career does suffer,” he told Bloomberg News. “Moving from there to another role is probably less likely because nobody’s observing them in another context. It will be tougher. Not impossible, but probably a lot tougher.”

Founded in 1911 in a merger of three manufacturing businesses, IBM — or International Business Machines Corporation — is based in Armonk, New York. Nicknamed Big Blue, it has a stock