IBM expects 80% of its employees to work in hybrid remote roles post-pandemic, Bloomberg reported. CEO Arvind Krishna also said IBM will likely scale back
From Steven Perlberg:
Carolyn Ryan was at Gracie Mansion in 2010 for a holiday dinner when she and Michael Barbaro, who was covering City Hall for The New York Times, greeted then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mayor, you of course know Michael Barbaro and his byline, introduced Bloomberg s former press secretary, Stu Loeser, who recalled the exchange to Insider. This is his editor, Carolyn Ryan, who you know from other people s bylines.
Then, as now, Ryan is one of the most influential figures inside The New York Times a polarizing, hard-driving deputy managing editor now supervising the organization s most fraught topic: newsroom culture.
Over the last year, the pandemic has not only shed light on all the cracks in society but deepened them. Thanks to systemic factors like a lack of affordable, accessible child care and women continuing to carry the mental load for their families, they ve been forced out of the workforce en masse. The total number of women who have left the labor force since February 2020 is more than 2.3 million, putting the women s labor force participate rate at 57 percent, which is the lowest it has been in 32 years, according to a January 2021 analysis from the National Women s Law Center. The perils of mothering in a pandemic is, in some way, affecting nearly every family, and this crisis is especially harming moms of color due to structural racism, notes Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO, MomsRising.