AT&T’s leadership has a warped, misguided, and clearly dysfunctional view of how employees productivity and value in regard to where they work. Someone who is a productive employee will be productive regardless of where their office location is, whether they’re working with a group of people, one person, or no other person in their vicinity. This bizarre idea that individuals and groups of people have to be located in very specific locations i.e., Dallas, Atlanta, or elsewhere, in order to be productive, isn’t supported by any kind of fact. The truth is the company is doing this RTO initiative with a very intention of forcing people to leave. They won’t as many as possible to walk out the door so they can trim headcount stinky and his minions. Think the rest of us are stupid, but the fact is, we’re not the ones who plunged this company into Billions of dollars of debt due to horrific business decisions that everyone in America, including Wall Street scoffed at. Stankey needs to go, this RTO nonsense needs to stop. Micromanaging employees with a strong history of performance and success does little but breed contempt for leadership in the company. The fact they can’t get through through their skulls tell you all you need to know about their views of employees in general. It’s embarrassing.
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A majority of employees have a warped view that they are all top performers. What does it even mean to be a top performer at T in its current state?
Remember the mass layoffs a few years back of people not located in a Collaboration Zone? Did anyone else see the Linkedin replies this guy kept adding to T posts? He said his friend moved to keep his job but Webphone was never updated showing his new compliant work location. He was laid off anyway after uprooting his family and buying a house. Had 2 mortgages at that point. The posts said his friend took his own life. Can’t play games with people lives. Sometimes it doesn’t take much to push someone over the edge.
Couldn’t have said it better, dead end job, it’s what upper management has mandated by their top down dictatorship.
Your opinion on RTO has no standing on your obligation to do as you are instructed by management or seek other employment. Whining here shows your immaturity. Probably best to seek your next dead end career choice.
No one is “OK” with RTO but we can be performative and pretend to ‘collaborate’ and tick the boxes by badging in 2-3 days a week. No one I know actually meets in person or does anything though except when it’s forced by mgmt.
That being said forced relocation is unacceptable and no one should be accepting it.
The majority of folks are not happy but okay with RTO. However, what is the psychology of drop in offices when there is more than enough space to give each individuals an assigned office? There is no reason for this musical chairs everyday when there are locations with enough office space tp accommodate office assignments. Especially when the cleaning crew cleans offices once a week at best. Why must neat people like myself have to sit in an office that has crumbs and spill drink etc. Let the sloppy folks sit in their pigpen offices with hairs also on the desk. It is gross and unsanitary. I have to carry clorox wipes, paper towels, lysol into the office everyday and 15 minutes to wipe it down. It just makes no sense when there are apparently more than enough office spaces to be assigned a permanent space to sit for each employee. No one can figure out why this is happening if not only to frustrate people further.
“ So sick of hearing about rto.” go post on yammer then. You won’t see anybody with ba--s to complain about RTO there
Did you just discover this site? I already took the severance package and left. Best decision. Already found a job too.
A recent study out the University of Pittsburgh studied the financial performance of companies and employees since the RTO action by companies started over the last 3 years. The studies showed that there was no improvement in financial performance for the companies or employee performance since the mandates were instituted. The RTO is an attempted force reduction without a having to pay severance.
If the company really wanted the employees to collaborate then the company would have assigned employees to specific desks next to our collaborators, or made the software which they are using for other purposes available for us to reserve areas for each team. the leaders are liars, plain and simple.
https://business.pitt.edu/return-to-office-mandates-dont-improve-employee-or-company-performance/
Ah memories of management lackeys making snide remarks of how lazy, obsolete and useless union employees were when worried about being surplussed. Now the whining shoe is on the other foot, and management is complaining about relocating to another office keeping their job. Working at a desk on a computer that will soon run AI software to do most of the job functions. All while all those obsolete field techs, C/O techs, Power Techs have to physically be there to do the job because we are too obsolete to have to relocate or be replaced by software. Grrrr why, why can’t we work remotely and have India and AI take over???
"Top performers can work anywhere."
lol top performers you mean the performers in security that just leaked customers information?
this was not true when I was at the cesspool.
top performers at att barely make it any where else and I would not hire anybody from att. I have interviewed people from att and they not humble and think they know everything. don't want that cr-p in my shop. att can keep all the people who are geniuses in their own mind.
Top performers can work anywhere.
“ Stop crying about working in an office and being held accountable for actual work.”
Being in the office isn’t the complaint in general, it’s being told you you have to relocate to another location meaning move pick up the cost up your family etc. etc. if you were in the office and working at a location before with no issues why would you suddenly need to pick up a move? 500,1000, 1500 miles away ,how does that change your productivity? It doesn’t
Stop crying about working in an office and being held accountable for actual work.
Employees are also sick of hearing they have to move across the country (employee paid move, not company paid) to keep their job, in an office where none of their coworkers in their group work are, with ZERO guarantee that they will have their job the next year.