This isn’t a company or leadership that respects or that’s it’s people. For the better part of 2-3 years many worked from home and were highly productive. There was not only a high level of productivity maintained but employees saw a much better work life balance and I improved mental and physical health. We’ve proven what we can do over and over again? The response? Head back to the office…even if you have no one to even collaborate with. They throw lots buzzwords to justify what makes little sense. They start counting badge swipes and monitoring LAN time etc…..instead of promoting and building on the good will then have earned by providing a great WFH benefit they destroy it by acting as the great eye monitoring what each employee is doing and judging not on their actual performance and contribution but rather if they spent the required 2-3 days in the office and whatever the minimum LAN time is. Wake up ATT leadership you actually have a great employee base who has dedicated their lives to making a great product and service and improving the bottom line. You can build upon that by allowing the free of WFH and FOW but when you have managers and leaders basing performance on “in person” attendance despite the evidence of what they can do telecommuting you lose the trust and confidence in those employees. Be a progressive company and recognize the enormous benefits of WFH for all who have positions that apply.
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A slacker will be a slacker in the office or working from home. A dedicated hard worker will work the same regardless of where their office is, End of story.
No line my Chick Fila at 1pm, it really is affecting restaurants.
I dont trust any of you either.
AT&T connecting people, places, things globally….except its own employees! 🤣
RTO is all about consistent maximum productivity.
RTO is all about the ridiculous Discovery District in Dallas. Period. End of Story. Yet another failed “investment” of the Stevenson/Stankey/Stevens regime. They couldnt care less about any other office in any other city. Swipe your badge… log on the LAN… call it a day… collect your paycheck. Repeat until you find another job with another company.
Are you really working from home? Are you even getting out of bed?
@2fjz+1lKQBoel ... most of the offices are near downtown where the commute sucks, sh---y schools are nearby, and anything decent to live in only an executive could afford. downtowns just need to be abandoned and turn that cr-p over to the homeless and all these id--t big city mayors. if you want us to come to the office, have something in the suburbs with a decent commute and high standard of life and maybe we won't bi--h so much about showing up.
@1fzq+1lKQBoel for real?? Nobody wants to work in this cesspool anymore. Word got out a long time ago in the Ratty Randall days what a lousy employer AT&T is. It hasn't improved under Stankalicious.
Very productive mowing my lawn, Costco run, paint my bathroom. AT&T work, not so much.
I agree with the OP. However, the issue of returning to work vs WFH is far more complex. Cities are losing billions of dollars because restaurants, dry cleaners, hotels, coffee shops, retail establishments, transportation have not seen a return to those cities, towns which previously spent dollars in their establishments. Your 2nd or 3rd level managers (and above) have no input in deciding policy when to return to the office. Frankly, the overwhelming majority of them would rather WFH and manage their teams remotely. But they don't set the policy....Pressure to bring more employees back to buildings where rent continues to be paid and cities and towns need the revenue generated when employees travel into the workplace is the real deciding factor along with keeping our cities and towns afloat and viable.
Since the employee survey comes out soon, that is a good suggestion. At least execs look at those comments. Not sure they do anything with it, but they get the comments reported back to them. Work life balance impacts employee work satisfaction and that is what the survey is trying to gauge.
only the chosen few get to work from home you know the special hires that were given all kinds of leeway to do stuff even if it meant breaking production systems.
This site has a lot more honest feedback than the corporate employee surveys! Some posts should be required reading for execs.
It makes me laugh when people come on here and write posts with leadership as the intended recipient. Like an executive is sitting here, reading it and thinking wow, what a good idea. Why didn’t I think of that?
People are d-mb.
To the genius who said if I work from home my job could be shipped to India, a huge part of my job responsibilities require a physical body to be located within the geographic area I am responsible for…like of hard to do from India or anywhere else genius….
well, having a significant portion of employees working remote would separate us from the competition and highlight the "wireless world" by being able to work and be effective 'anywhere'. it could also attract the younger talent they want.
the company should be pushing the limits and show how collaboration can be done effectively and efficiently from anywhere and be the example. This would also increase their reach for talent that may not be local to one of the at&t campuses. we could get more talent by not being limited to geographical location.
If you are so unhappy, you should seek employment elsewhere. Many others would gladly take your spot.
When you work full-time WFH, then your job can and should be moved to India. Stop complaining.
put your thoughts on employee survey
Yawn.
blame the lames that ruined it for us by abusing honor system. unproductive workers that took advantage of wfh are to blame for having to go back to the office.
Stankey is a bullie.