Was it about saving severance or corporate real estate or simply anymore aggressive glidepath to a targeted headcount number? Seems like it would have been far easier to do staggered and targeted severance to get to the numbers in order to have your remaining employees maintain some sanity. At the end of the day it appears a lot of ineffective employees will be retained while those more talented fled the ship.
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"Stankey is smash man. "
It seems that within T's culture this is the norm. I've observed similar behavior from VPs, where they choose to destroy well oiled machines simply because somebody else created them
Can't go to CostCo....
Stankey mantra - no one is safe
“it's very difficult to concentrate and write good code or design specifications, and to tackle other technically challenging issues”
AI can do it just fine. There will be no more people like you when T implements the next GenAI model tuned for software development.
“Everyone is replaceable. Don’t fool yourself.”
True, but it would be best to keep our best.
Looking at it from a different perspective... it's very difficult to concentrate and write good code or design specifications, and to tackle other technically challenging issues in a fishbowl environment were people to do not have quiet workspace. So even setting aside employee concerns, RTO, as currently implemented, really isn't in the best interest of company productivity.
Everyone is replaceable. Don’t fool yourself.
To worst part of this is that they are actually driving out many that they can’t afford to lose. It’s already happening. It’s not the so call dead wood that’s leaving, those folks will stick around, it’s the leaders in their space that are bouncing out. Seeing more and more every week. Going to be a lot more by March.
Looks like the CEOs are using Trumps playbook.
“ Please stop with the RTO complaining. It is what our major boss told us to do. Deal with it or leave.”
Go nap on the freeway.
Please stop with the RTO complaining. It is what our major boss told us to do. Deal with it or leave.
"ATT will chase off the older employees"
No, it won't. There are many older employees that are staying for medicare/medicaid eligibility and the few tenure benefits that they cannot get by starting as a new eployee at another company. Stank, in his infinite wisdon, took away benefits that would intice older employees to leave.
Seems like everything is targeted towards the 2.5 debt ratio come he-l or high water. Toss in replacement of a 100 year old infrastructure. Some very expensive and stupid decisions were made during that buying spree for businesses we didn’t understand. We are becoming the water company from a basic infrastructure standpoint.
"It is an about getting full-time employees to work full-time hours."
Yes, Stank's plan has helped me reduce my hours to full-time 40. 8 & Skate, it can wait.
Crying and whining already. It is only Monday. Ge-z
The internet presence is strong. ATT will chase off the older employees but can they attract the new employees? Unless the plan is Private Equity and all operations to India.
They can’t just layoff who they want to get rid of because of age and race discrimination laws. The Hunger games tactic is the method they have chosen for older employees. Other tactics are currently in use to pressure others. Not all employees are 5 days RTO yet. The employees they desire to keep are currently receiving a six month handicap by being allowed to continue working from home or only needing to RTO 3 days. We’re being scammed and pushed out the door with unfair workplace tactics being applied unequally. Time for the cilvil lawsuits to commence.
It is an about getting full-time employees to work full-time hours. Too many employees have retired in place for 20 years before finally going off payroll.
ATT doesn't plan or train for the marathon. They sign up, get to the starting line, shoot their foot, and wait for the starting g-n. I think in their one remaining yet weaker most is fiber but they won't maintain that lead long. Their current lines of business are a giant carcass that everyone will pick away at with Verizon and TMobile taking larger chunks. You can't cost cut your way to prosperity unless you are in the C Suite loading up your duffel bags with cash heading to the rooftop helicopter getting out before the inferno of internal malaise and external competition takes it all down.
Stankey will destroy Superman!
I don't think Stankey is the strategy mastermind he thinks he is. He is sledgehammer and smash man. Rather than navigate through the forest he smash, chop,burn, destroy. Stankey is smash man.