Thoughts on enterprise sales teams being impacted? Wire? Mobility? Both?
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I'm really hoping ATT gets wise enough to offer occupational personnel some sort of voluntary package to leave before 2024.
Surplus will never end….what you will see more of is scrutiny around job function and output. Sales will be audit heavy and geolocation will be inspected through mobile device. Call counts and Salesforce activity will be inspected and evaluated. Missing numbers cannot be covered by “friends” in the business any longer. Face to face sales will live in the geography of their clients. It is going to get crystal clear on direction and where you stand quickly.
Mid year reviews due by 8-11-23 , at least in GES , Global Enterprise Solutions. I would expect layoffs to occur under the guise of performance, or lack there of, in Sept.
Yes
The goal is to right-size all sales organizations by end of Q3, also the newly realigned public sector mobility sellers will be heavily scrutinized over Q4 as management determines if the former firstnet reps can succeed as stand-alone sellers, company-wide there will be strict adherence to the PIP process for sales performance, those not meeting new add and revenue targets will start to be managed out of the business the beginning of Q1/24
Layoffs are monthly, and supplement the rto waves.
Based on expense cuts and shrinking capital allocation for 2024, looks like another big year of cuts coming in 2024. Maybe by 2026 we might have pulled out of this nosedive.
My friends, this is going to be a slow, emotionally painful process. Every group, at every level; young, old; waste of space, skilled; remote, in a hub; etc. They will methodically cause chaos throughout the company. Fact of the matter, they can't do it all at once because HR can only handle a certain number of surpluses a month.
September will be the next round.
According to Vinz Clortho with Keymaster Capital on his most recent podcast speaking about AT&T's RTO policy. “on August 17th many older Shubs and Zuuls will soon know what it is to roast in the depths of a Sloar that day I can tell you."
The only rumors I’ve heard are from this website of the 8/17 date. People I work with seem to think nothing is going to happen since they laid off some managers and sse’s already. I would be shocked if nothing happened just because of the high quotas and low amount of people hitting quota. You just never know with this company. Probably going to do it in November again like last year.
Which groups? I’m thinking mid-market- Bat/Fiber/Platinum might do some shedding. Anyone else hearing anything?
Yes, it will be an incredible 18-24 months of weekly last offs folks. Get used to it. We are paying the piper all the way back to Randall and Stank’s failure to get T-Mobile done.