Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Level 2 individual contributor. I’ve worked from home for the last ten years. Even through the collaboration zone era; hint- nobody was checking. I plan to keep working from home.

After our recent town hall, we are being told to return to the workplace after working from home for over 14 months because our gleeful SVP is excited to come visit us. Does he really think the high productivity, no attendance issues and the highest ever customer satisfaction will continue as he lowers our quality of live?

CEO - WFH full time

area manager product development

I work from home and watch p0rn at the office. Best of both worlds

With the variant I’m thinking some employees will meet an untimely ending once we ALL get back to the office. This is just a fact. Eventually a vaccine won’t be able to protect us.

I think there still needs to be a few provisions for people to have a place to work from in the event their home internet service is down due to some kind of trouble, but that should not be some crazy once per week , just because we can, requirement. After working from home for this year plus, we all now know that we get much more work accomplished without having to be around tons of people that are either acting like or fulfilling their role as village id10ts. This past years individual performance could and should be used to weed out those that cannot work responsibly and reward those that have proven they can. Way too many babies and slugs in our workforce, we all know who they are, now it can easily be proven...

I work in a hub, not Atlanta/Dallas, office space was reduced by 70%, terminate lease and consolidate buildings. There isn't enough seats to meet occupancy numbers, that is a fact. Meanwhile, there are selective executives who are mandating their teams to report back to office, as a matter of principle without actual merits. Just another lame example of phony leadership. They are so focus on being attendance police, no time to improve and grow the business.

People should step back and look at the entire picture. Long before the pandemic, Corporate Real Estate was working on consolidating/ closing office space wherever they could. Incredibly, yet surprising to no one that's been here awhile...at the same EXACT time there was a contingent in other organizations executive leadership that decided they need everyone to be in the office, all the time, with very few exceptions (many claim Donovan was primarily behind this). Many people left or where surplussed during this period of time, unwilling or unable to commute a over a hundred miles or more a day in the name of "collaboration" (often to an office where no one else on their team reported to anyway)...and truth be told Real Estate didn't have the space to accommodate all of the flex workers and telecommuters that were now being told they needed to be in an office full time. After a prolonged period of nonsense with the threat of badge swipe and VPN monitoring always present, leadership changed, and subsequently we saw a relaxed attitude return to WFH, with decision making power on the matter largely restored to the L2/ L3 management level. Then, the pandemic hits. Everyone working from home full time by mandate. My very large organization doesn't miss a beat. We're all remote anyway. A year plus later, the policy now that we are supposed to have returned to the office starting July 1st is: "try to get there once a week, if you can". Some leases have expired in the interim and in some cases there is no office for folks to return to anyway. Clearly a very relaxed policy. It still requires like a 5th level approval to be designated a full time telecommuter (TW), so that's not happening in most cases...but most everyone is classified as "flex" workers now, and no one seems to care whether or not anyone is in the office. And by all accounts, there are not many people in the office.

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