Can any L3+ comment on how long T will support non hubs in Maryland, St. Louis and Illinois?
20 replies (most recent on top)
I've heard those 3 locations are closing by 12/31/25
For Market occupancy indicator employees, a long time.
as long as someone that's "in the club" needs to office there, it will remain open, when they retire or leave, all of a sudden it will close
If it isn't Dallas or Atlanta its gonna be a long term problem. Maine and Chicago.... forget it. Loser locations for sure. New Jersey, Redmond, Austin and San Ramon keep getting reduced and will be shuttered.
Chicago land area is IBEW and this union pays better than the other ones. Also, when SBC bought Ameritech, they were sold a bill of goods, especially the network itself.
Stink HATES legacy Ameritech. Always has.
"Why is Stankey so down on Chicago?"
It is probably politics.
Many were too busy trying to stay relevant in the company avoiding this noise.
Post from TheLayoff.com
Why is Stankey so down on Chicago? Did the employees of Illinois Bell or Ameritech somehow rub him the wrong way? I realize he doesn't like many areas outside of Dallas, but Chicago seems to really bare the brunt of his hatred.
If you haven’t been invited to the hub by now you should have started to look for a new job many months ago.
Anyone know anything about the future of the Bloomington MN office?
Want to know where next target areas are? Then just simply - Follow the Money.
If you’re in a N4 area as it pertains to TSR, you should know you’re on a list, regardless of your current role and how strategic or revenue-producing you think it is. It simply costs too much to employ people in these states and areas with salary, benefits, future pension obligations, FICA match taxes, real estate, etc. Not to mention difficulty to get around state government and regulations. This adds to the reason to get out of declining legacy products with exponential growing negative EBITDA. International will eventually feel this too but many countries have strong employment laws that prevent AT&T from doing two week surpluses. Some countries require a year notice.
If you work on legacy network, infrastructure, or operations, then many smaller footprint areas will be discontinued by 2027 and you will likely see an impact. These are likely N1 TSR areas and could be eventually moving on.
If you are already in Dallas or Atlanta, RTO will get you if you do not subscribe to 5x8 “collaboration”. Leadership has convinced those city officials that they will have X thousand employees fueling sales tax initiatives with lunches, parking, after-work entertainment, public transportation, etc that the cities lost out on 2020-2023 when most management employees were at home. This also helps those cities pay their bills to AT&T so we will reinvest in the community and overall infrastructure improvements.
Maryland? Lol.
San Ramon will be gone soon, and was a hub in the past.
The company is tasked with getting out of non owned buildings. It’s also trying to rid itself of all the old central offices too. CEO spelled it out during the 4th quarters earnings call. To answer the question, if you’re in either, you’re moving in the near future.
I’m an L nothing but have two ears.
unless an executive lives there like in Charlotte, they'll shut it down. Different rules for different people.
I have seen power points with large reductions of real estate in Illinois and STL.
Didn’t specify headcount in the visuals just large reductions in footprint.
I'd look into finding out about any lease arrangements. If the property is going off-lease, AT&T might not renew the lease.
Never!
L4 here. You will be lucky to make it to July.