Or is it about getting to know the thousands of employees across the global organization — and understanding how they actually create value for the company? Increasingly, that value has been generated from their home offices — far more effectively than from assigned (or shared) office cubicles ever before. Forcing everyone back into the office risks not just morale, but the very productivity and value that made remote work so successful in the first place.
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3M is an island of strangers.
Would the required C-suite approval be granted in person or remotely?
@b4 The Smurf will stay around until BB needs to throw another log on the fire to explain away yet another underwhelming metric performance. That's why he kept Tireman for a bit, until OTIF hit the cr-pper and he found a scalp. Also, if one of BB buddies from his past life wants the IT job, The Smurf is a goner.
Experiment: mention Smurphy in a thread and he paid or figured it out himself - doubtful - how to downvote.
This guy is responsible for digital? 3M is far behind its competitors in every facet of digital and Smurphy is responsible with blocking every investment - even those that are base level catchup. BB, we still have some faith in you. Get rid of this Monish henchman!
If you have learned anything about BB, then it's that he's an obsessive/compulsive metrics-driven micro-manager. Look how he called out (flogged) the (former) St. Peter on OTIF on an earnings call in early 2025. And then Petey got his walking papers in early April. In this day and age, you can be sure that BB will have a team bigger than Mighty Mac's Master Black Belt Team (early 2000s, when 3M was being full-nelsoned and turned into a pretzel into being another GE) scouring through badge data. Pity the fool who leaves home at 8 and gets the Center at 9 and leaves at 4 and gets home at 5. There will be no mercy or 2nd chances with this guy. He knows he's only got two years to finish the break-up, or the Board will find another stooge to dismember what was once a Midwestern American icon.
It's not about productivity.
Annual layoffs priced to be unpopular with shareholders.
This is Billy Boy's way of accommodating a headcount reduction without spooking investors.