IBM CEO Arvind Krishna warns employees who work remotely: ‘Your career does suffer’

Arvind Krishna has a message for the 260,000 employees of International Business Machines Corp.: Remote work can be hazardous to your career. The CEO of IBM, whose hybrid-cloud computing business has benefited from the rise of remote work, said he’s not forcing any staffers to come into the office just yet, but those who don’t would be hard-pressed to get promoted, especially into managerial roles.

“Being a people manager when you’re remote is just tough because if you’re managing people, you need to be able to see them once in a while,” he said in an interview Monday in New York. “It doesn’t need to be every minute. You don’t need to function under those old ‘Everybody’s under my eye’ kind of rules, but at least sometimes.”