#presence

Starlink/SpaceX will be going after every cable and fiber ISP customer as early as this year. AST SpaceMobile which we have like a 2% stake in (Somebody somewhere in AT&T had a brain) will be going after the wireless customers as early as next year. Rocket Lab and Space X in the satellite payload biz. Rocket Lab and SpaceX beaming solar energy back to the ground. Meanwhile AT&T employees will be monitoring their presence reports. Is 7.7 hours enough? Good news. 6.7 is enough!

Lack of enough presence in office in Q1 may also be on chopping block next week

Has anyone been flagged for not coming enough?

I’m exhausted. The commute, the cost, five days in a seat for work that still happens on a laptop and on calls with people who aren’t even here.

Let’s stop pretending this is improving anything. It’s not driving better results, it’s just draining people. Then leadership turns around and wonders why effort drops.

People aren’t checking out for no reason. They’re burned out from a system that makes zero sense.

This isn’t better for employees, and it’s not better for the company.

Roll it back to hybrid and start measuring output instead of presence.

Did anyone have any issues with paid caregiver leave still dinging you for a day missed? Those days and vacation are not supposed to negatively impact the report.

They have changed the presence report again starting February. Any insights into what they are tracking and reporting that is new. I reached out to my supervisor, but he did not have details on the changes.

Day 1 of 5 tomorrow. 8 hrs per day, 40 hrs per week. M-F. Don't FORGET ABOUT IT! See you in the office, slackers.

And my manager is trying to intimidate me using the presence report. What can I do or say to get them off my back?

The total for the week was correct but all the individual days were wrong. How the heck do they do that? Seems like a different error every week.

Are you still required to coach employees on the presence report by HR? Or things have slowly fallen off the radar?