A leading telecommunications firm whose core business products are literally technologies that enable working from ANYWHERE, states that the model of distributed work is flawed and unworkable for a business concerned about fostering employee collaboration and innovation.
What would be the impact on AT&T revenues and churn if all of AT&T’s customers adopted the same model?
I don't know what motivates these posters who side with the company on this but WFH ain't the gorilla in the room. Pay attention and stop your boot polishing long enough to grasp the real problem. The fact that there is a massive program to lose people by telling them to relocate on their own dime is Stankey's latest sc--w-up. And it dwarfs T-Mobile, DTV, and even TW. No one in their right mind would uproot their family with no financial assistance for a job across the country that might last a year if they are lucky.
We apply "do as I say, not as I do" to customers too, it's not just to our employees.
Now, that's "walking the talk!!!"
“….and in an environmentally responsive manner.”
I’m just having a hard time believing that you’re hard working and giving it your all at home if you refuse to come into the office part time. Maybe your not as company minded and flexible as you claim
“Think about it, all the techs are essentially working remote. I assume there are a ton of them. Proof the product works.”
Most techs are bounced from place to place all day. We don’t have as many techs so tons of drive time all day
Wouldn’t you have to use those products on the 2 to 3 days you’ll still be at home? It’s not an abandonment it’s a hybrid model. What are y’all saying. Zero office days is what your demanding?
The needs and work place requirements for each is business specific. T has determined that it operates best with people working from the office.
Think about it, all the techs are essentially working remote. I assume there are a ton of them. Proof the product works.
Nothing because the businesses probably have T circuits to their buildings. It is not like every work WFH person used T. Furthermore WFH folks already had internet service. All T saw during the migration to WFH was a different usage pattern
It’s not the virtual technologies that don’t work. It’s the majority of T employees who aren’t productive at home.
STOP the bi--hing, moaning and complaining. Don't like it, quit! You are not self-employed, therefore, you must do as told by your employer. Great way to clean house .... By the way, if you're gonna claim you're working from home, you might want to stay off social media and not post all the personal things you're doing while you should have been working. Asset Protection loves these types of employee's :-)
the company sold us the idea that we were made to come back to the office for collaboration, but 95% of all meetings are on TEAMS. folks barely talk. wfh was a very productive and common sense way to balance work/life
People got lazy with Covid. Prior you had to be on site every day.
I had an employee who was vo for years saying the office was too far to drive. It was 8 miles!!! I advised my director who did nothing.
folks would probably still be working from home if they actualky worked from home instead of shopping, playing with the kids, bbq'n, cooking dinner, watching the batchelor, etc.
FFS - stop crying and go back to the office. No one is forcing you to work for T. Everyone is replaceable. If they valued you so much, they would try to keep you. If they don't- wake up. You are an employee and they can tell you where to work if you want a job... just like every other company in the freaking world. Just go to work and shut up already. Stop crying. Millions of people do it every day, so can you. Or get another job working from home. Just shut up either way and work.
And yet recently there was a press release where ATT is partnering with Cisco to offer a work from home VPN product.
"It’s like rain on your wedding day."
Alannis wouldn't put up with this sh-t. She'd take her hand out of her pocket and get the f outta here.
https://about.att.com/story/2022/future-of-work-study-results.html
“Alicia Dietsch, Senior Vice President, AT&T Business Marketing:
“There’s been a non-reversible shift in the way business is done thanks to the constraints of COVID-19. It’s clear that a successful talent program now requires a hybrid work policy, but that policy needs to be supported by a strategic tech-first cultural reset, to ensure business growth and competition. Firms need to ask themselves if they have the in-house expertise to achieve this, or whether it’s now time to go beyond a partner in remote infrastructure rollout to a partner in tech-first remote business strategy.”
It’s like rain on your wedding day.
Analogy doesn't work. I got married on a mountain top in Scotland, in a pouring rain. EPIC!!!
OP is 100% correct. You are basically acknowledging that the core services you sell are not helping people to be productive. Imagine going into a customer to sell remote services to any of our customers. They could say, "you don't eat your own dog food, we are going with Microsoft (Zoom, Cisco, etc....)" and laugh you out of the room.
It’s like rain on your wedding day.