The Real Disconnect

Executives and their narcissistic egos still can’t accept that the world changed.

Five years after the pandemic, employees have overwhelmingly shown they value flexibility. The data keeps showing hybrid work isn’t going away. Yet some leaders remain obsessed with attendance, visibility, and control instead of results. That’s exactly what we’re seeing at AT&T.

Instead of focusing on performance, productivity, innovation, talent retention, or competitiveness, leadership is focused on presence reports, badge swipes, and making sure people are physically sitting in a building.

The irony is that the people making these decisions are often the same people wondering why morale is collapsing, why experienced employees are leaving, and why younger talent isn’t interested in coming here.

Employees adapted, the workforce adapted, the job market adapted, but this leadership didn’t.

The future of work is flexibility. Every major survey and labor trend points in that direction. Younger companies and younger leaders are embracing hybrid work while companies clinging to rigid mandates are increasingly fighting yesterday’s battle.

AT&T’s leadership continues to act like forcing people into an office five days a week is some competitive advantage. It isn’t, It’s a recruiting and retention disadvantage and a morale disaster

And the longer leadership refuses to acknowledge that reality, the further behind the company falls.

You can force people into a building but you can’t force talented people and the people you want, to stay.

#Culture #Flexibility #Leadership #Morale #Retention

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@bj Dude you don't 'hate boomers' you're just jealous of their pensions and hefty 401k and home ownership. Go ahead admit it, you want what they've got!! Most importantly, they have no mandate to RTO. Snicker, snicker.....hahahaha

“All studies show that RTO is the industry standard”

Why do you keep stating that? It is patently false.

Structured hybrid is still by far the standard across most industries for management, including Telecommunications.

What extensive studies of over 450 companies and over three million employees DO show though, is that Return-to-office mandates fail to increase financial returns. They succeed only in motivating star employees to quit, reducing the satisfaction of those who stay and discouraging new talent from joining. Experiments at tech companies and nonprofits show that letting people work from home part of the week boosts happiness and decreases turnover by a third — without any cost to performance.

So stop making things up because you get some kind of weird thrill from being contrary here. One can only imagine what kind of strange stuff you are up to in your basement there.

It's the Boomers. I hate Boomers. They destroyed America.

@OP Look at the assigned headcount per location in webphone. Check the available seating and parking. Thousands of employees are working from home full time, or on a hybrid schedule. It just ain't you. Stop being a mo--n and fact check before you post false information.

@b6 how is RTO the Industry standard when Verizon and T Mobile are both hybrid? All the other smaller telecom providers are all Hybrid and Remote as well. What industry are you talking about?… regardless the nationwide standard is also Hybrid and Remote. Less than 10% of companies are fully 5x8. #fact

All studies show that RTO is the industry standard.
Either conform or resign, or is it more fun to cry?

They
Don’t
Care

And the executives have overwhelming shown they still prefer control over their paid servants.

RTO peeps are no more than a piece of society being used as examples of modern servitude.

@af “and yet you stay”
What a proactive and stimulating statement, I wish I could be as neurologically challenged as you are.

And yet you stay.

@a2 you just don’t get it, do you. There is a standard for a reason and RTO 5x ain’t the standard, for a reason.

@a2 enjoy going down with the ship, hero.

Just don’t get it do ya’ll. If you want a special work environment and it’s not available where you currently are it, leave. If your skills are so special start your own company and work from wherever you want. As it grows you can then dictate where the employees can work from. In the mean time go to Dollar Tree and pick up a package of pacifiers along with a box of tissues and do what you’re paid to do.

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