Layoffs are every other week these days. Gotta cut cut cut those costs. Still need to get under 90k employees. Only 35k more to go. Eventually it will hit the techs, but I’m sure only the junior most people to reduce costs.
Is 90k something that has been officially confirmed as the end goal or are people just guessing?
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Company is all in on AI. One question for AI. What is the difference between a 101b and a Terminal 163. AI would have no idea.
Anyone?
T should use AI and get rid of the whole useless Atlas team
AI is growing by leaps and bounds since its inception into the market.
It'll reduce headcount quickly.
Really.
Until they pull the plug and charge absurd amounts for access.
@bz so very true.
AI is growing by leaps and bounds since its inception into the market.
It'll reduce headcount quickly.
Really.
Might need a few folks to stick around to write prompts, test and QC. Other than that, a lot of the job functions are close to the razor's edge.
Sorry devs and call center folks. It su-ks. I know.
Y'all can be a wire tech, though.
@by since the company moved HQ out of NJ there has been no innovation here. Just thick skulled southerners cutting headcount to stay afloat.
@b1 Most every project and proposal from vendors must have "AI" in the marketing terms else it won't get funded. Behind the scenes, it's nothing more than decision tree matrixes and business rules. The vast majority of the Tech Dev don't really understand AI, because if they did, they would be long gone from this company and working in a real AI company. They might have taken a class or two, or read up on it, but they are "faking it until they make it". That's standard operating procedure for T. APIs, Microservices, Big Data, Machine Learning, Agile, SAFE, Cloud, Security, the list goes on and on. AI is just the next step.
And just remember, AT&T claims they have been working on AI for 70 years. According to AT&T, the company’s roots in AI go back to 1955 via Bell Labs (its research arm) — when researchers helped organize the conference where the term “artificial intelligence” was coined.
So 70 years of AI at AT&T and this is all of the value T could squeeze out of it, while all of the trillion dollar companies have been around for far less time... I digress.
It’s comical people believe the agents will replace people at AT&T, it’s so obvious they were fed some PowerPoint presentation watered down for non-technical bozos and lapped it up like Legg and Stankey.
We’ve been 6 months til ai replaces all devs for the past 4-5 years.
Lmao.
If you asked most of the devs here what a transformer is they would think you’re talking about electricity and AC.
If you asked them what RAG is or a vector database they’d think you were talking about shapes not data in mathematical format.
We def have some good developers here but significantly less now that RTO has kicked in.
Ai agents aren’t replacing anyone here, at least not for a long while, we don’t have the expertise or budget to maintain them and get them setup.
Lmao “Ai agents” lol
100K or less.. similar to VZ numbers is ideal target in the next year.. layoffs with no backfills , AI agents are being built in parallel ..
“ Where did you get your head count number? The only reason I ask is because we were around 139K back in July-August.”
A database. Filtered out contractors.
@ag Stanks been mentioning this for 15 years. He just needed to be in charge to make it happen.
It can't go faster because they need to keep the legacy business afloat. The people are being downsized commiserate to the loss in legacy revenue. The long play is to replace copper and the union contracts with fiber and non union labor (in many cases via 3rd party resellers and or GigaPower fiber builds). Mgmt will be done by offshore and we'll be left with a small US based management workforce. They hope to be bought out by a much larger player (Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google) or just bleed the profits until bankruptcy. It's the private equity way.
"We are just under 129k today"
Where did you get your head count number? The only reason I ask is because we were around 139K back in July-August.
Way too many "ringers" on the payroll, dump them now. You can run but you cannot hide!
Yeah. Damn those workers who showed up all on their own, on boarded themselves, commandered their own equipment and just started working.
Of course they should bear the sole brunt of this.
Gotta get rid of the unneeded workers. Running a business. Don't want to be paying for workers that aren't doing any work.
@af I agree. I’m leaving too. Tired of the abuse. I follow all these bullsh!t rules and it still isn’t good enough. Toxic T can kiss my a-s.
Yes, the goal is to be on parity with t mobile and Verizon when it comes to revenue per employee. Stanks has mentioned this many times. So doing the math, that puts us under 90k employees at current revenue. We are just under 129k today in headcount. So around 40k in reductions over the next couple years is what I expect. We’ve been reducing by 10-15k per year for a while now.
@ad and these people who only do 20-30 hours a week will be all the company is left with next year when I and many others who do over 40 hours a week in office leave this sh!thole for good.
@ad then deal with the people in question. Lay them off or put them on a PIP and force them to 5x8 for a full year, and let the ones who have been compliant return to 3 days. That’ll change things immediately.
You can’t punish people who comply while others get a free ride and a slap on the wrist. Totally unfair to those who comply. Where’s my reward for 100% compliance all year?? The logic at this place is so assbackwards. It’s a circus.
“Why do you think the average hours report is back in the spotlight again?”
Because there are still so many FT employees not even completing 20-30 hours a week. This confirms headcount is too high.
Yes. Why do you think the average hours report is back in the spotlight again? Forcing people out… Such a demoralizing place to work.
they’re just trying to find a way to cover that $100M gap so they can cash in on their bonus next year...at least in Jen org
Really, Toxic-T need to get rid of only one Stinkin' headcount - the Stink!
That and getting rid of the BoD that let him run amuck will solve T's problems!
I have not seen anything official but various people have come to the same conclusion. Stank has proven now that he cannot grow revenue so he has to go after expense. The number being thrown around is in comparison to TM and VZ. Both companies generate more revenue with fewer employees than T. I believe VZ is about $132B Revenue with 100K employees.