Why would any company requiring people to be in the office 5 days a week NOT have assigned seating? It makes no sense.
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"They can't be bothered to assign you a seat, especially since the CorpRE leases now expire left and right and the company will move you around whenever a cheaper office space comes up elsewhere. Looking at you, Milpitas & San Ramon."
Apparently San Ramon has exercised an option to stick around thru 2026. The original plan was to shut down the 3rd & 4th floors by EOY (leaving only the 2nd floor in the North wing) but now CRE will be closing only the 4th floor by end of 2025. Either way, San Ramon is being downsized and will eventually be closed altogether.
Will not be as big of a problem once we return to hybrid 3 days instead of 5 later this month
Nothing ATT does anymore makes sense! Their extremely poor decisions over the last 15 years or so have proven that time and time again! Very poor, unqualified leadership!
They can't be bothered to assign you a seat, especially since the CorpRE leases now expire left and right and the company will move you around whenever a cheaper office space comes up elsewhere. Looking at you, Milpitas & San Ramon
It’s not supposed to make sense JAFO. The intent is to make you miserable and cause disruption and chaos.
The only desire for AT&T is to reduce its domestic management workforce headcount and offload real estate holdings. The faster you move toward accepting this, the better off you’ll be. Stop trying to rationalize the actions of the dimwitted, careless imbeciles at the executive layer.
Be compliant, put on a smile and ride the stoopidity until we board another train or you retire. Complaining on this forum does absolutely nothing. That said, the new eNPS will open tomorrow so you’ll at least have a vent until 6/17.
@c9 And that's why there are frequently tow trucks at Lenox.
@c0 sometimes in Alpharetta I park my car in assigned parking, and then they call me up, I say I didn’t find any parking space open and I didn’t want to loose time from my 8 hours in the office parking lot.
Next I would sit in one of the VP rooms.
@cn maybe they just sk
Maybe they did not budget for name tags to mark the cubes? Maybe they are hoping some folks leave cuz they have not ordered more cubes? Maybe yhey don't want anyone getting too comfortable? Not sure.
Open seating is not about collaboration but the fact that they don't want to give us enough resources to actually work in a productive environment. Can't give us assigned seating because there's not enough seating yet for everyone. But, by making EVERYONE under C-Suite level absolutely f----ing miserable, surpluses, and hiring in India (yea, what an 'American' company T is), there should be enough seats for those that are left. . . . .
Wait until AI decimates the workforce -- the fun hasn't even begun.
Folks wait till we go 8 to 5 in 1Q26...Hearing that thru back channels.....
@c6 people are parking in that area because there are not enough spots. Wait till June 9th when ATS is back…
Just wait till they start charging us.
While the rest of us scramble to find parking
Parking at Lenox wouldn't be such an issue if people wouldn't keep trying to park in the area that the Lenox property group has said is specifically off limits to T employees.
“ they have their own reserved parking spaces at Lenox. ”
Same at Alpharetta.
You don't get it. RTO was a HUGE push to force people out. Management seems to have the objective to make it the absolute worst place to work. I dont even call it AT&T any more, open your eyes, its IT&T , look at all the promotions and accolades, they all have one thing in common. They want you got, they are rolling the dice for a brain drain and that's what they got.
“ Only problem is, the “leadership” that thinks that this acceptable, have their own dedicated offices. ”
And now, they have their own reserved parking spaces at Lenox. While the rest of us scramble to find parking and a desk to sit at, our fearless leaders have dedicated parking and desks.
Y'all degree earners now realizing you graduated college to go back to High School?!?!?!
Just waiting to see how much longer before the parents show up...try adulting yourself first, pretty please!
Because they are a--holes
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“When their goal is to get the number of employees to sub 100K range“
Right now we’re 60% contractor 40% employees. We are well below 100k actual ATT employees.
@az Only problem is, the “leadership” that thinks that this acceptable, have their own dedicated offices. When they walk the talk, that is when they will be respected for their decision. Until then, it is just more of the same AT&T speak of do as I say, not as I do.
They want their cake and eat it too. They want everyone in the office but they don’t want to spend for the space.
Open seating is intended to ensure increased collaboration where you don't necessarily sit with the same coworkers every day. It also prevents the common issue of seats being lost when workers take vacation and extended sick time. Assigned seating is not efficient in T's current environment.
and yet you remain
They will assign seats when the ratio is 1:1.
You know the answer. Stop asking the question.
Not assigning seats allows for increased collaboration with new people. It also makes sure all seats are available at all times. When an employee goes on vacation, a dedicated seat is my lost. Open seating has become a lot more common in office spaces.
It makes perfect sense when they don’t care about you and want to push you out the door.
They have more employees than they have seats.
When their goal is to get the number of employees to sub 100K range, they don’t see a reason to assign seats. They just want people to quit on their own..make as difficult as possible for people to leave. This has been clear since the past 1 year or so
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