AT&T would face a lot less resistance to change if leadership finally dropped the RTO obsession. Most of us support performance-based expectations and accountability, but the forced return and relocation policies have turned the majority of employees against upper management.
You can’t rebuild trust while punishing the workforce. People aren’t resisting change, they’re resisting bad leadership. Until that changes, you’ll keep getting the bare minimum effort and zero loyalty in return.
RTO is here to stay, get with the program or leave.
@b2 Yes if any one says some one is not working while remote then what Supervisor is doing, why they didn’t take action? If supervisor is not complaining and they are aware that some one is really working then what is point.
@b7 working from home , add extra hour to work/ productivity, working from office is passing time to spend 8 hours, this is the biggest difference.
What are you really doing at home?
"As a supervisor, it has been clear that employees complaining the most about RTO are the ones who were abusing it."
As a supervisor, if you knew people were abusing the privilege and did nothing about, you are the problem You should have been the first to get axed.
Look at the stock price that all the RTO defenders pointed to.
Headed for sub-$20, bet.
Where are these RTO defenders now? Hope all you id--ts sold lmao.
Everyone is silently looking for change other than those who are waiting for pension, they are showing in office willingly or unwillingly, because they don’t have choice. Team is getting squeezed and work quality is deteriorating because many good employees terminated or left or fired for not accepting RTO or failing presence report COBC termination.
You can’t put a g-n on this new young generation and ask them to follow some rule which is not widely followed by a company. They will keep looking for better opportunities and ditch this bi--h company.
At one time AT&T is harassing some employees to follow RTO and other side many people are still doing remote non hub WFH.
You are having team in India and saying need people in office for collaboration . Collaboration on what ? on phone ? then whats wrong in people having flexibility doing work in US. In India people are still doing WFH.
RTO, presence report are just made for cobc voilation termination to mere save some money of severance packages.
@at “ We are heading for a train wreck in 5 to 10 years- losing young people because our “culture” su-ks and the people covered by a pension retire.”
You are absolutely correct. However, the Stank doesn’t care about 5-10 yrs down the road. He’s put the plane in a death spiral and will jump out with his golden parachute before it hits the ground. His only worry right now is massaging our financials to cover all his failed deals and billions of dollars he’s wasted.
@af We lose TDPs within the year they’re here lol, they don’t even stay the full 2-3 years.
We also lose explicitly lose our elite prospects from UT, GT, Ivys, Berkeley, etc., and keep all the ones that have no idea what they’re doing
Not all of the old people love RTO but we need to stay because we have a pension. The young people don’t have a pension so they leave.
We are heading for a train wreck in 5 to 10 years- losing young people because our “culture” su-ks and the people covered by a pension retire.
As a supervisor, it has been clear that employees complaining the most about RTO are the ones who were abusing it.
"T continues its drive down to 75,000 personnel and those remaining work overtime to cover gaps."
Except most of the ones remaing behind refuse to work any significant OT. The new Mantra is "8 && Skate, it can wait"!
“Younger” people won’t stay in part because this company isn’t innovative.
We just buy stuff on the credit card and call it a day.
Also the cyber baby sitting via presence reports and hourly monitoring is a huge turnoff. At least they get MLK day off 😗
@ak and when the 75k left are over 50 and they retire in 5 years, then what? Oopsie!
“Tell me how you think this ends well.”
T continues its drive down to 75,000 personnel and those remaining work overtime to cover gaps.
@a6 he won’t ever admit he ran the company and stocks into the ground .
Applesauce and don’t be a Yugo.
Good day
@ag and so are the boomers. The under 40 group is not accepting the BS RTO push and are doing everything they can to leave this place because of that policy.
This year, company wide, we lose 30-50 people under age 40 per week, and the only people who stick around are the ones they want out. The ones who have 5 years or less until retirement. Tell me how you think this ends well.
RTO is here to stay.
The TDPs we bring in for a 3 year gig all leave once the 3 years are up (or sooner) because they aren’t willing to accept 5X RTO Boomer logic. Good luck attracting good talent under 30 with your pointless 5x RTO policy. Fu-k!ng idi0t!!!
That’s it! Time to go back to the way things were before Covid. Working from home each day, unless there’s a legitimate reason to go in the office. Not sure why this is so hard for people to grasp. Tired of going to the office each day just to check a box on a report while I take teams calls that could easily be taken anywhere.
Yeah it’s kind of hilarious, all the 50+ employees that he wants to get rid of love it, but we lose 10+ 23-28 year old employees a week in my location. Absolute fu--ing mo--n
They make rules which no one knows and fired employees, so employees is against leadership. Example is they fires many employees who were less than 3 hours in office. But if its RTO then anyone less than 8 hours is equally wrong like anyone less than 3 hours. So which clearly shows lack of proper instructions before taking any action which shows there purposely done intentions, these types of tricks they are inventing to save severance packages.
@a7 Sorry but us 50+ yr old employees hate RTO! We commute an hour or more each way for no reason in unkept buildings with once a week trash service and disgusting, dusty buildings that make everyone sick. The utility cost alone in these huge empty buildings should be incentive enough for WFH!
Funny thing is the 50+ crowd he wants gone are the only ones who are ok with RTO. The age groups he wants to attract all HATE RTO and are leaving for remote and hybrid roles. Soon, as all those 50+ retire within 5 years the company will be left with no one besides low performers who are stuck. RTO is a masterclass on how to destroy a company.
Sadly, Stankey’s ego will never let that happen. He will never admit he was wrong. He’ll let the ship go down before that happens. In fact, just before last piece goes under, he’ll pull the rip cord on his golden parachute, then tell people it was the employees who sabotaged his grand idea.