"In a lengthy Friday memo addressed to "all AT&T managers" that was obtained by Business Insider, Stankey shared his thoughts on the results of the company's employee engagement survey."
https://www.businessinsider.com/att-ceo-john-stankey-email-employee-feedback-survey-rto-policy-2025-8
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Employee morale speaks for itself.
I put my user ID on the last survey. I got laid off the next round. I am honestly retired.
I'm a retired AT&T employee and I just read Stankey's letter on the web. The letter is so much blather and scolding. Stankey and Stevenson burnt thru so much of AT&T's cash and larded the company up with so much debt it is a travesty. Stankey is in his early sixties. He will pontificate for a few more years and then retire with a golden parachute leaving a smoking hulk in his wake.
Having a company whose stock and trade is networking tell its employee's not to use the 21st century technology it provides to work from home thereby improving their work life balance and mitigating global warming by keeping cars off the road is a little like the CEO of Ford Motors telling Ford employees to ride horses to work because he likes horses. AT&T has thousands of contractors working in India. Stankey isn't making them commute to Dallas everyday so he can keep a watchful eye on them. The man is a hypocrite.
That article was bought and paid for by AT&T, I guarantee it. Boot licking monsters, all of them.
Stank seems to think we’re all customer-facing, in the same location, doing the same job — as if coding, managing teams, and handling client calls all require the same environment. The chart showed Amazon — are we selling groceries now? If we’re truly market-based, why was RTO forced before the rest of the industry or our direct competitors? Surely it has nothing to do with quietly forcing relocations. How do we end up with a CEO who has no real understanding of what employees actually do?
All this does is give Stankey wood.
Big, tough CEO.
Dude is such an a$$wipe.
OP needs to learn to use archive to get around paywalls…. https://web.archive.org/web/20250802161415/https://www.businessinsider.com/att-ceo-john-stankey-email-employee-feedback-survey-rto-policy-2025-8
Paywall
People too scared to tell the truth.