Want younger talent? This is NOT how you keep them. In fact, it’s the exact opposite, they’ll be the first to leave. You’ll be left with the 55+ crowd, and in 5 years when they retire you’ll have nobody. Good luck getting college hires to 5 days RTO into your sh!t hole dinosaur offices.
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Still have people holding on to hope about Chicago.
This has to be a joke post?
Chicago? Why do you think Ross Bawcum retired?
He knew the deal and wasn’t going to RTO to Dallas for the Stankey
“FWIW we need to separate complaints about returning to the office from forced relocations to said office.”
I am in agree. I also have same complaint. I also am forced relocating to the Dallas. I also am from close proximity of Chicago locations. They did the forcings on me 13th of December 2024. Now I must RTO in far away place away from family and the friends. Each of the family says to me “do not go to the Dallas” but choice is not of mine because I need the financing. They do the betray on me after so many of said years. The forcing is giving even the pet dog shakira the sad face. I give the petting on shakira but still she does not want me to go. Now I come to website in the Dallas to do the discussing because
I have not one such friend. I will go to office in the morning am also to be sad during the working.
FWIW we need to separate complaints about returning to the office from forced relocations to said office. I myself am an employee with 24+ years who was hired in and worked in Chicago before securing a virtual arrangement more than 12 years ago. Would have been more than willing to commute to an office in Chicago but unfortunately don’t have that option and am now facing a move to TX.
Enough with the snarky comments and one-sided objections. Realize there are people facing real challenges with valid reasons to question the RTO policy.
“RTO is becoming an industry standard. It isn’t specific to AT&T or a particular demographic.“
The way it should be. Before Covid nobody cried about going to an office. Playtime is over cupcakes. Covid is long gone and so should be working from home.
"The slackers you mention will keep slacking, just in an office because they can’t find anything else or lack the skills."
You are absolutely correct. If the goal is really to get rid of the slackers (which it isn't) then you have to change the managers of people. This idea that you can change an unproductive employee into a productive employee by putting them in a cube on company owned property is ridiculous. All you are doing is extending the length of time you are keeping a bad employee by bringing them into the office. Get rid of the bad employee before he gets to the office.
Instead, the executives have decided to go scorched earth because they are not really good leaders. They cannot grow revenue so they have to pull the employee expense lever. And in doing so they are destroying the culture of the company. D-mb executive decisions that continue to be rewarded by an absent and complicit BoD.
"Either work in the office or bring you're lazy crying a-s to another job."
That is exactly what the OP stated. The younger workers are not staying and the older workers are staying. So, Stankey's culture make-over is having the opposite effect. Too many other companies are allowing full-time WFH or 3 of 5.
IT offshore to ITT and network outsourcing ER, customer service will all AI agent….. only left a few executives with big pay check.
They don’t care about 5 years from now. Seems like everything is being geared towards meeting the 2.5 debt ratio. And if AI actually works they won’t need as many people a year from now. And not just this company.
" RTO is becoming an industry standard. ”
1000% percent incorrect. Do the smallest amount of research, so you don't sound so misinformed.
No 5 day in office requirement for management at either TMO or Verizon (and that's just our competitors- or at least the ones we now chase due to Stank's ineptitude ).
“ AT&T will move back to a hybrid model further down the road when all the WFH abusers working part time are cleared out when not meeting current job requirements.”
You mean after they lose all their talent and younger workers because they will go work where the employers offer flexibility. Those will be the first to go. The slackers you mention will keep slacking, just in an office because they can’t find anything else or lack the skills. They all like to hide in the cube farms and quiet floors I’ve found. The noisier the floor the busier the people, the quieter the floor the less work actually being done.
H1B. They're happy to RTO 5 days a week. They're not from here, don't have family here, etc., what else do they have to do? They're like contract/travel nurses.
bye..don't need you anyway
“You might want to look at all the available jobs on LinkedIn and then tell me 5x in office is the standard. NOPE, quite the opposite.”
AT&T will move back to a hybrid model further down the road when all the WFH abusers working part time are cleared out when not meeting current job requirements.
“ RTO is becoming an industry standard. ”
You might want to look at all the available jobs on LinkedIn and then tell me 5x in office is the standard. NOPE, quite the opposite.
RTO is becoming an industry standard. It isn’t specific to AT&T or a particular demographic.
No worries ai and h1b holders will take your place. Please quit now.all hail our new first foreign president elon musk.
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Be sure to tell all your TDP buddies about this website. Seems their voices are never heard here,
The funny part is how the company clearly tries to give TDP employees a better work space to try and keep them happy. When I walk through their area, I see personal items everywhere. You guys have your own work areas. Must be nice!
Stankey won’t be here either in 5 yrs. He doesn’t care what will happen. Look what he did already? T debt is over $140 billion.
Good. That program is a complete failure.