I worked at IBM and my office was like this after the original product was EOL. There were several in-house teams that worked for entirely different divisions o

I worked at IBM and my office was like this after the original product was EOL. There were several in-house teams that worked for entirely different divisions of IBM. In hindsight, it does seem odd since you - if lucky - at least had 2-3 other people on the same team at the office. I wasn't aware of any minimum per team or any other weird metrics. Every team was always distributed geographically anyway. Kind of crazy to think about now to be honest. I hadn't even considered how this affected middle management either. It seemed less common, at least in our case, to have an off site first line manager. So we might have even had multiple managers per team that way but someone who was there would have to correct me. It should be no surprise the company has its own unique brand of dysfunction.