Any word on number of layoffs?
Altomari Email
To: All ACE East Management Employees Earlier today, we implemented staff reductions impacting our organization. At this time, all impacted active employees have been notified. Impacted employees on disability or leave of absence will be notified... — read more
Surplus notifications concluded for Network Engineering under C. Anthony
If you didn't get tapped today already, you won't be surplussed this round. Next round coming up shortly though.
Overseas employees need to RTO at Dallas and Atlanta
See, now you can see just how ludicrous that concept is. Sorry if you sit on the board , maybe that should be compensation enough. Trying to boost occupancy of your real estate holdings to beyond 50% is something you should do without the help of... — read more
RTO/surplus from ANTS
Any RTO/surplus news or update for ANTS group (under IRENE SHANNON)?
Any Confirmed L3 or Above Impacted?
Have any higher level managers received a call?
HR Impacts?
I don't work in HR, most all the info we get is forwarded emails from our HRBP. Can anyone speak to how the HR org is impacted either by surplus or hub relocation?
https://www.cablefax.com/distribution/one-more-time-att-shuts-down-directv-rumors-again
“We look at other opportunities, we always do. That’s our job. But the bar would be pretty high in order to do something to try to accelerate more value creation.
Mass Markets - Layoffs?
Is Mass Markets under Jen Robertson impacted by surplus?
Global Supply Chain RTO & Layoff News?
Anyone know of any layoffs occuring in Global Supply Chain?
GES Org, Any News?
Anyone hearing anything pertaining to surpluses and /or received any RTO notification for GES? ( Global Enterprise Solutions).
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/20/att-openai-streamline-internal-operations
AT&T chief data officer Andy Markus is particularly excited about the use of generative AI for writing computer code, where little added work is needed and productivity gains have been averaging between 25% and 50%. "The tuning that’s required in... — read more
https://www.telecompetitor.com/att-weve-won-broadband-funding-for-130k-locations-in-past-year/
Government estimates that has invested $13 billion in projects funded through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to AT&T. The ARPA estimate includes funding from the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) and the Capital Projects.
Not much News today as anticipated
I am not hearing any news about RTO or surplus today as anticipated.
Tell them you accept
If you plan to leave, please don't let the upper management know. Everybody who is not planning to relocate should say otherwise until the very last possible moment. Let's mess with their plans and numbers. I know that's burning a bridge, but it... — read more
CWA District 6 Surplus Info
Anyone have the notice to the union on which titles and location were affected?
Att raising rates again ….
Great move Continue to give att customers a reason to leave to other providers , raising the elite rates to cover the free HBO , lmao lame move Raising home internet $10 , yeah right all the other wireless providers are offering home internet that... — read more
AT&T reviews and job indeed
over the past couple of months I keep refining my resume and deleating the old one and replacing it with my new one on Indeed, I noticed that every time I put up a new resume it picks the AT&T and asked me about 6 questions for a review. I take... — read more
Surplus notifications today
ACE Mobility…our manager set up a quick group call this morning after we came in to just tell us we were not impacted but some people under our Director were getting layoff notifications. We are in southeast…
News from Corey Anthony?
A poster yesterday mentioned an 8amCT call for his org. Anybody have news? The people I know in that group are not online in Teams yet.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-22/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-jeopardizes-corporate-diversity-too?srnd=premium&lead
Race-Based Affirmative Action hiring Is Over. Corporate Diversity Could Be Next
https://about.att.com/blogs/2023/generative-ai.html
AT&T’s New GenAI Tool Builds on a Company-wide initiative 'Employee AI Transformation'
Management surplus notice, today or tomorrow?
The quarterly union layoff was announced on the 15th, 151 positions are being eliminated.
AVP and above
There is room for deep cuts at those levels! Many of them have fewer than two direct reports.
These Mind Games Are Criminal
It's not ok to mentally abuse employees the way AT&T does. Anybody who defends their toxic management of this company is just in a contest with themselves to see how much cr-p they can stand. The amount of stress these people are going through... — read more
280,000
that use to be the number of employees
10 largest layoffs in last 21 years
Guess who is in the top 5? https://fortune.com/2015/09/20/biggest-corporate-layoffs/
3 Weeks until we show up in major hubs
What will these places look like week 1? Our VP has not told us anything other than he doesn’t know anything. Just report to location in web phone.
Mid-Markets
Anyone else hearing that some news is coming tomorrow?
Who will lead mid-markets?
After JVB’s big promotion?
Voluntary Surplus after RTO Letter responses
Hearing rumors of voluntary surplus being offered shortly after all the responses from the RTO letters have been received. The rumor is that they will be offering 1 year severance instead of 6 months. My guess...it's possible that this may be true... — read more
Group - no option to move
This is a group (happens to be six people, all L2s) under the same EVP that I work with closely. This seems strange and if I get more info, I'll post it, but I thought it was worth mentioning. In May this group was told that RTO/Dallas was coming... — read more
Legal Mandate Team - Illinois
Interested in joining the group someday but hear the work environment is brutal.
A (hopefully taken as) hopeful comment
My spouse and I left T back in the early aughts, but we still have many friends employed here, and while this is a disheartening situation, I think it’s important for someone on the other side (who’s been thru this) to write YOU’RE GONNA BE OK... — read more
Townes Org - 5 days a week in the office
Just heard on VP town hall call. All of Chad Townes organization (SVP, AT&T Business - Customer Service & Operations) will get their notifications no later than June 30th with expectation of 5 days in the office per week at Webphone location. The... — read more
i retired years ago
living well on pension and bonus and benefits. doing nothing like I was when employed here -it was a different time internet was just in the early stages you knew your boss and cared about things. The only difference is communication industry is a... — read more
I'm so looking forward to collaboration
I know my colleagues will caringly and frequently share with me all they know about our shared work tasks, once I can look them in the eyes in person. Collaboration will make me not only a better worker, but a better person. It should also help me... — read more
AT&T Debuts a ChatGPT-Powered Tool for Its Coders AT&T says Ask AT&T will collate data that will make employees more "creative at their jobs.
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