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You definitely can - I know that many of them still do. However, I'm not sure how many people do this 100% of the time.

Nope, they recently changed their policy where your manager has to go through tons of paperwork for you to work from home one day a month! One of my really good friend works for IBM and that person told me about it.

Your friend is misinformed. The marketing department is the only group that did this. It is not even close to a blanket policy right now.

IBM's policy seems to have changed recently. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/08/ibm_no_more_telecom...

From your article: "IBM has spent the past couple of years undertaking a massive turnaround effort to transition from its servers and services business model to one focused more on cloud, security, analytics, and mobile. That turnaround has brought with it thousands of job cuts."

While it's obvious that IBM is trying to cross the same CASM (cloud, security, analytics and mobile[1]) as their "West Coast competitors", I'm glad that IBM is still investing in basic research as per the OP submission.

[1] https://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/deloitte-review/issue...

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