
"Like working at IBM"...
Yet another oxymoron.
IBM is running a dating service for staff in China in a bid to ensure employees stay with the company, according to reports. Corporate singles events co-hosted with other companies are already common practice at domestic IT firms such as search engine Baidu, reported the Financial Times. As if in some weird Bizarro World, IT …
When I was working for Big Blue not so long ago, turnover in China was intense. Bright graduates attracted by the name would walk in the door, take one good look around the business park at what their contemporaries were earning, and walk straight back out. And that's just the ones not put off by the utterly poisonous atmosphere within the company.