I can’t believe there are still some people who believe that was the reasoning behind RTO. It’s the attrition tactic, plain and simple. It’s about making as many people leave on their own, so it costs T nothing to get rid of them. It’s about pushing people out this way or another. That’s all. All other possible reasons are either excuses or far less significant.
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WFH is about being lazy and not having to hide it. Sleep in, personal chores, work on the house and nobody being wiser to it.
or in my case: get up at 5 AM, go workout, go home, shower, and be signed in at 8.
Sure it is. Duh
“ I'll say this, as a white technician who's been doing this for decades, the laziest person in my department has never been black”
Who the F is talking about race?
You’re clearly projecting you unconscious bias here. No one said anything about any race being lazy.
"WFH is about being lazy and not having to hide it. Sleep in, personal chores, work on the house and nobody being wiser to it."
You are obviously talking about yourself.
Issues with WFH slackers is a management problem, not an employee problem. AT&T has always had a slacker problem, whether working in the office or WFH. And with the layoffs and people leaving due to RTO, it is only going to get worse. Of course, that now means you can continue to be a slacker hanging out in the kitchen and talking everyone's ear off about how productive you are while doing nothing.
I'll say this, as a white technician who's been doing this for decades, the laziest person in my department has never been black and the hardest worker was either black or in the top 5. In a department that is dominated by white and Latino people, the proof is right there. I've never seen stereotypes played out in customer facing positions at various companies.
There are multiple reasons for RTO. It is likely that headcount reduction is #1.
Yes, we all know that, but what are you going to do about it? Unfortunately they'll have to keep cutting people until everything is burning down.
I can say without a doubt it'll be this year when everything falls apart.
There are multiple reasons for RTO. It is likely that headcount reduction is #1.
I find it extremely ironic that a company whose primary stock and trade is networking, a company that has developed cellular technologies that have facilitated 24x7x365 connectivity from virtually anywhere on the planet, is forcing its employees back into the office. AT&T should be championing the WFH model to the hilt. I'm now retired from T. I spent the last 12 years of my career doing IT support for T from home. The nature of my job demanded it. When I wasn't working from home, I travelled around with a pager, cellphone, laptop and a cellphone USB modem. In those 12 years, I never missed a metric. In addition, more than half of our team was in India. Only Krishna knows where they were working from. WFH was better for my work/life balance, kept tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere, kept me from burning a car out every 3 to 5 years, and made for one less car on 287 and the Parkway. In addition, from a corporate balance sheet perspective, a bunch of office real estate could be shed with WFH. In my humble opinion, RTO is nothing but a bunch of egomaniacal bros (mea culpa ladies, but most of the people forcing this issue are men) swinging their tally-wackers around, and proving to themselves and their peers how much power they have over the great un-washed by demanding a method of work that is outmoded at best and brain dead at worst. Or it is just a ruse to make life more miserable for the long suffering T employees so they quit. (Me thinks the latter)
Yeah, it’s great that they had to move the Sugar Bowl so you could make such a stup1d comment.
Grow up M0r0n.
At least we will be able to watch the Sugar Bowl tomorrow while “WFH”.
They can open as many jobs as they want for college hires, none of them want to RTO 5x8+ for a dinosaur company in offices older than their parents and garbage comp.
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"STFU get your a-s in the office and prove how indispensable you are."
No one is indispensable. So you STFU and get ready for the unemployment line you entitled a$$hole.
STFU get your a-s in the office and prove how indispensable you are.
Truth!
Any other reasons is what they want you to believe!
You all make up this “white man is under attack” cr*p and you really believe it.
Get over yourselves. You’re lazy and feel like everything is owed to you and then b1tch and mian when anyone else wants to be treated as your equal.
Un-friggin-real!!
OP -- that is just the sh!+ stirrers and Stankey a$$ lickers mentioning deficient WFH employees.
"WFH is about being lazy and not having to hide it. Sleep in, personal chores, work on the house and nobody being wiser to it."
If that was happening on a large scale then that is L3 and up problem. You need to get rid of leadership from the top down, not the bottom up. The knowledge base at the top can be replaced much more easily and quickly at the top since there are fewer of them, than the actual people implementing the plan.
Yes, poor white man. Throughout history he’s had it so rough 😢.
Let’s create a national go fund me page to help him maintain his ego.
Close OP, but not the full story. Go back and watch Jeremy’s Town Halls where he rants about DEI diversity goals. He declared that diversity goals would be tied to performance. Giving updates with diversity officer they spoke of challenges including not enough PoC entering STEM and other companies with competing DEI hiring strategies. I find it an ugly coincidence that all of ATS was later told their job was moving to Atlanta, where Georgia Tech has been actively promoting their stats as the center of the PoC STEM universe. Ki-l 2 birds with one stone: Johns goal of making the company younger and Jerrys triumphant DEI hiring spree. Ever bother to ask yourself why there are 50+ white guys that agreed to move and then were laid off anyway, conveniently opening up yet another STEM job opening in Georgia. Attrition, yes but selective attrition and selective backfill.
WAIT FOR THE DIVERSITY UPDATE PRESENTATION!!!!!!!
WFH is about being lazy and not having to hide it. Sleep in, personal chores, work on the house and nobody being wiser to it.
This is correct. But 5 days/week is.