We got timelines in the JVB org recently. July 7 we get the notice of whether we are office or virtual and if you get to stay in your current location. Give individuals 2 weeks to decide. If you don’t want to relo you’ll be on payroll till “end of year” - no definitive month yet but maybe through November latest December. If you decide to relocate you have up till August 2024. Relo packages uncertain, exceptions uncertain.
Bumping this from @vdb+1mZ884Gi for info.
JVB?
“Do they think by end of year the att ai will be able to take up the slack?”
T is currently so overstaffed that remaining managers will easily be able to handle additional workload requirements.
“L If I was told if I commit to move I could stay until August 2024 I would think hard about agreeing and then effectively using the 13 months between July 2023 and August 2024 as a 13 month severance with paid insurance. I could still retire in August 2024 and get the few benefits left with retirement.”
You will be officially terminated at the end if going down this route.
My work friend under JVB just told me the same thing regarding the timeline and details. I am in BMO and being told we won't know much until August. If I was told if I commit to move I could stay until August 2024 I would think hard about agreeing and then effectively using the 13 months between July 2023 and August 2024 as a 13 month severance with paid insurance. I could still retire in August 2024 and get the few benefits left with retirement. I hope that's what many people do and the company realizes it lost at its own game when many people quit right before they need to relocate.
Do they think by end of year the att ai will be able to take up the slack?
Yes RTO means return to office but I would not call it “fair” as a descriptor because I am not being asked to RTO. I have always been an office employee. I am being asked to move over a thousand miles with no assistance from the company. They are emphasizing RTW and RTO as the name of the initiative as a smokescreen for the forced relocation of 12-15k employees.
↓↓↓ That's what the original timeline was implied (by end of year). That way, you can train those who are staying on how to do your sh!t. Won't work. I still have teammates who haven't crosstrained as backup for years.
"I keep seeing RTO. What does the acronym mean?"
Return To Office.
Some managers at AT&T and some of the original materials described it as "return to work", an insulting Freudian slip that shows leadership's lack of trust in remote workers.
"Return to Office" seems to be the favored term in the media. It's fair because it doesn't equate remoteness with productivity, something the senior leadership is desperate to do.
I keep seeing RTO. What does the acronym mean?
You’ll get severance package if you say you’re leaving. If you say you’ll move but then don’t. You won’t get severance. Just be let go.
So why would the company let you to play it by giving you the option of employment until August of next year? This might be true, but it doesn't make sense to me.
I call BS. No way this broke a** company is going to pay people not planning on moving until the end of the year.