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25 FEBRUARY 2020. AT&T Named One of the 2020 World's Most Ethical Companies.
13 FEBRUARY 2020. Banners to Backpacks.
29 JANUARY 2020. AT&T Release Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019 Earnings.
07 JANUARY 2020. AT&T named one of the 2019 27B Workplaces for diversity.
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Say it with me, "H-O-R-S-E–Sh–!". That's AT&T's ethics; pure, unadulterated, unpasteurized and Grade 'A'.
Peel back the onion, and this is what you will found.
1) 25 FEBRUARY 2020. AT&T Named One of the 2020 World's Most Ethical Companies.
Selection is done by "Ethisphere’s proprietary Ethics Quotient®, the World’s Most Ethical Companies assessment process includes more than 200 questions on culture, environmental and social practices, ethics and compliance activities, governance, diversity, and initiatives to support a strong value chain. The process serves as an operating framework to capture and codify the practices of leading organizations across industries and around the globe." They relied on company supplied information to determine ethics level, they should just call themselves a marketing company.
David Huntley, AT&T SEVP, is part of Ethisphere's Executive Sterring Committee. This doesn't smell fishy at all, right.
2) 13 FEBRUARY 2020. Banners to Backpacks.
Upcycled sponsored event banners into backpacks for local communities. The bean counters will account this as cost savings as not having the dispose vinyl mesh and fabric signages that are horrible for the environment. Another marketing win, "earned media", good news coverage with kids running around with AT&T logo backpacks.
3) 29 JANUARY 2020. AT&T Release Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019 Earnings.
"AT&T generated $29 billion in free cash flow in 2019, up 30%. It paid out about half of that in the form of dividends, and bought back about 56 million shares." This is how the company invested it's cash, not investing in workforce, R&D, products and services. Who benefits? Executives, yea big surprise.
4) 07 JANUARY 2020. AT&T named one of the 2019 27B Workplaces for diversity.
About DiversityInc: "Our business model extracts valuable data from the largest and most prominent companies in the world. Executives from these companies share their data because they want to compete for the best human capital in a marketplace that is increasingly non-male and increasingly non-white. DiversityInc has decades-long relationships with major corporations because they find our data, products and services to be an invaluable asset in guiding the growth and prosperity of their companies."
This is by definition, a symbiotic relationship between companies and DiversityInc. Data, products, and services.... and awards based on company supplied data has to be the most objective method to determine diversity, not!