Offices are like call centers now, literally everyone in my area has been on conference calls all morning, fighting for quietness to hear their calls and respond. This isn't collaboration. 95% of the work that this being done in offices can be done at home with absolutely no issues, fewer interruptions, and more actual collaboration.
Also, to the people that unplug and move people's stuff during lunch, sc--w you.
Solution.. do not mute on calls while in the office. I've been on many calls with those offshore.. they are not on mute, kids screaming, workers talking over each other in a crowded room. 🙄
Person next to me had calls all day, i can hear.it from his headset and when he talks, hes very loud probably because he cant hear himself. Person behind me same. Here i am sitting here watching YouTube on my phone. What am I gonna do with loud conversations around me? Lol, works for me. I get paid, i get home.
Hire Jerrie's Seinfeld's cabinet maker Conrad to build the George Costanza under the desk office space - Season 8 - Episode 18 (The Nap) - Productivity will increase 3 fold?
Joke
Headcount reduction
Office Space.
"........We have donuts and coffee every day, we have pizza for lunch."
They are ki-ling you slowly... and this person is blindly accepting what T is doing to him.
Wow!
For the compliant folks go into the office and enjoy the amenities. Good for you and great work.
For me, while I'm missing work by zoning out at home, I'm not "missing" work at all. I log into VPN early in the morning, so the boss knows i'm online. I use the side bar on chat and set it to "busy" so people know I'm working. This allows me to space out for at least an hour.
I just stare at my screen, maybe have you tube running. I type some gibberish on my chat so it looks like i'm typing at work.
I would say in a given week, at home, I probably only do about 15 minutes of real, actual work.
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I am comfortable back to office in Alpharetta. There is lot of nonsense about AT&T's offices not being good enough, they are WORLD CLASS. Sure we still do collaboration over Microsoft Teams and not in person. But company wants us in office. We lose time due to traffic and drive, but this is no different than many other companies.
There is a lot of fear mongering going on here which really is not relevant. Company pays me good money. We have donuts and coffee every day, we have pizza for lunch."
I don't know where you work at in Alpharetta but building 300 does not have donuts nor pizza every day. They had donuts the first day, pizza the third day and that was to mollify the 100% capacity over-crowded throngs.
Conditions are abysmal in Alpharetta. Spent the day in a new area of the campus and it's like night-and-day. If something isn't done about the overcrowding and the abysmal reservation system that's making the situation worse, something bad is going to give.
John Stankey, if you are listening (and I am quite sure he doesn't listen to anyone): going back to office makes sense. I have VO from home for almost 20 years and there is something to be said about coming into the office. BUT, under humane conditions and these aren't that. Suggestions: 1) make mandated days in office from 3-5 to 2-5. Requiring 3 minimum is leading to days that induce overcrowded conditions. 2) put cubicles back in the office. At least have perhaps 40% cubicles. Not all of us employees are call center, conference call, Team meeting workers. I'm a developer. I can't concentrate when I only have a 1'x1' table space. Today, I enjoyed a cubicle and for the first time could concentrate on my code and WORK. It was a joyous, happy moment. 3) Do away with this reservation system for workspace. It's causing a lot of aggravation and anger. The system doesn't always work, find myself not able to grab a work space because someone has reserved it for 3-4 hours and that wipes out any chance of getting a 8-hour window. 4) which brings me to the this suggestion - can we please have workspaces with fully functional equipment? Every day it's either the drivers don't work due to wiring so don't have functioning keyboard/mouse/monitor, don't have workspace with those 3 or have workspace with those 3 but can't find a chair. Every day I am wasting about 2 hours just trying to find a spot, keep a spot, and doing my work meanwhile lugging all my home equipment back-and-forth to the office. And finally: dedicated-to-me workspace would be MARVELOUS. I, and I see many of my fellow employees, spend much wasted and unproductive time just trying to find the workspace they were able to make a reservation for and inevitably that space is never available from day-to-day.
I don't mind coming in (my commute isn't hellish like it is for many), just please give us: a non-overcrowded swapmeet environment, dedicated space we can go to that actually has all functioning equipment and some privacy/quietness, particularly for folks like I that have to concentrate on code that goes out to our networks.
Just wait until football season...
I gonna microwave a 3 month old slice of meatloaf for 7 hours there tomorrow!
Thanks for the insight. Also if it can be done at home, then it can be done in India. Thanks for helping shape the path forward.
Team calls are definitely a problem. Could barely understand my supervisor on the last conf call because of the background conversations in the shared workspace. Must be all that "collaboration" they spoke of.
Come on man! You’re acting like babies. What an embarrassment.
"We have donuts and coffee every day, we have pizza for lunch."
'Who cannot be laid off as RTO incompliant must be eliminated by cholesterol and high blood pressure.' (T's HR secret guideline)
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I am comfortable back to office in Alpharetta. There is lot of nonsense about AT&T's offices not being good enough, they are WORLD CLASS. Sure we still do collaboration over Microsoft Teams and not in person. But company wants us in office. We lose time due to traffic and drive, but this is no different than many other companies.
There is a lot of fear mongering going on here which really is not relevant. Company pays me good money. We have donuts and coffee every day, we have pizza for lunch.
Is like an indian call center, people wearing dipers po----g not to lose their spot
Let it go man.
They just don't care, and right now are reduced to watching the remaining shareholder value spiral down the commode.