Since he's taken office as CEO, John Stankey has been at war with the employee base at AT&T. At every turn he has stripped employees of any and all benefits that he legally can. He has not acted in good faith with unions. He created a RTO policy that from the beginning was a way to reduce workforce and minimize payout of severance. He has made sure to fly under the radar of the Warn Act (though NJ caught him!). Now, rumor has it that there are mass employee reductions for 2nd half of 2024. How? By another "RTO relocation of jobs" that are already in hubs such as Atlanta and New Jersey, moving to Dallas. Note: relocation of jobs, not people. Of course, that has been the new HR buzzword, which is atrocious: 'we move (or remove) jobs, not people". By firing employees whenever possible for COBC violation because they don't work 8+ hours in a massively overcrowded customer cell drop-in centers called 'offices' where even on a low employee count day such as Friday there's a constant, steady din of Microsoft Teams meetings penetrating the air and causing stifling noise pollution. Perhaps, Mr. Stankey, they go home or to another site where the employee can actually think, perform, and work unlike the zoo called Dallas. or Atlanta. or New Jersey.
The reason that the employee culture survey results haven't been announced and the fact that we haven't received the annual employee survey is that those culture results are so poor that it lays bare the new culture John Stankey has created which is "C-suite vs Employee" warfare.
The culture Mr. Stankey has created in his short tenure means one of three possibilities for AT&T as a company given the trajectory of employee morale sinking to unfathomable depths of despair-turning-into-downright-hostility. First either John Stankey is replaced and the company survives. Second the entire employee base is replaced and an entire non-C-suite workforce is replaced by cheap overseas labor and AI and the company survives as a small subset of what it used to be Third the company is broken up or falls into bankruptcy so sell all stock now. Which choice will the board approve?