Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

It is switching to tent city in San Francisco. Just pull up a box and have a seat.

Not only San Ramon site is closing I am 100% sure all sites except Dallas will close as well in two or three years.
The guys working from San Ramon office they have no clue what T is doing, they thought they have stability while T has listed there office for subleasing and ready to evacuate immediately!!! Look at the listing to believe it
You don’t know what T is doing in WA or NJ or Atlanta

San Ramon site is closing in the next few months, the site is up for sublease by the BR, this makes all the RTO and the hub plans so questionable and fishy.
Leadership has to answer for this are we next in Redmond WA and NJ and Atlanta?

we heard San Ramon would stay open for a "select few" organizations as they wanted a "Silicon Valley" presence. What organization wasn't made clear but we laughed when the brainiacs at AT&T considered San Ramon a Silicon Valley site. Perhaps they are as bad as map reading as they are in with everything else.

San Ramon is totally going to close

"AT&T bishop ranch office in San Ramon really summarize the story of AT&T, from the leaders of telco business in 1983 when this office built and hosted 18000 highly paid and skilled employees, we invented the first router, the first fiber optic, the first sfp, and first satellite data in that office to now … "

Same story in all AT&T offices.

To answer your question, T will close all offices that are not necessary and will move all functionalities to Dallas, not because it is red or blue, or they want to surplus people (which is possible) but mainly because it make sense financially, it is cost efficient, and the salary ladder is more reasonable in the Midwest compare to the West Coast and North East.
Answering the other gentleman from the "CENTER OF EXCELLENCE" T leadership doesn't care about you or your center, they have Ericsson, Intel, AWS, and Microsoft engineers doing your lab work for free in exchange of HW purchases credit, I am working in the same labs as you do.
Some of the VPs in the lab told me in person, that we will be lucky if we can keep our jobs and move to Dallas, but they doubt it since Services As A Solution or SAAS invented by AWS/MS/Intel/Ericsson and others ki-ls any R&D efforts by companies like T and VZ and T-Mobile, by providing the service as a credit for the HW we buy.
Wake up and smell the coffee.

hey everybody, downvote the liar

CDO and Labs get to stay in San Ramon as its now considered a center of excellence. Stop being salty and downvoting and calling me a liar. Literally ask anyone in those 2 orgs

Actually bush st office in San Francisco is closed already
For Palo Alto I am not sure and don’t know if still there, I can’t find it in our data base, and San Ramon office closing soon definitely before the lease expires in 2025

you’re lying about that. Sr and sf are both closing down. Palobalto is going to close too. No way T is gonna invest in another building

it doesnt matter what building management it is. we have other buildings in the bay.. the fact is at&t labs folks get to stay in the bay whether its palo alto, sf, or san ramon

“ Hubs are ultimately going down to just Dallas. We were told that on several calls.”

FIFY

Atlanta is dwindling. All new hires and backfills are in Dallas. Atlanta is just on a longer timeline to shut down is all. I’ll give it another 3-4 years before Atlanta is closed also.

Do you really believe your management?!!!! Dude, you are new to T and its tricks, talk to the BR building management and the leasing office and hear it by yourself, they have no reason to lie

this is literally false. talk to anyone at at&t labs. san ramon is literally a CENTER OF EXCELLENCE. which means it will stay as a hub for anyone in the AT&T labs org. people in at&t labs DO NOT have to re-locate, they can stay in san ramon

I just talked to the bishop ranch management office about AT&T lease
T is leasing now a total of 334,000 sqft
Only 57,000 sq ft is used by T and it is the worst part of the building (I don’t know why)
And 267,000 sq ft is unused and listed for sublease
Lease expires on Dec 31 2025 and T has NO interest to extend the lease on the 57000 sq ft it is using and negotiating to walk away by Dec this year from the building completely

Guys I think we will go back to wfh
Or move to Dallas
Or will be surplussed

im trying to move to a big tech company like google, apple, microsoft, etc. how hard is it while having at&t on my resume?

This is completely false, san ramon is considered a center of excellence for at&t labs folks. so they are able to stay in san ramon as a hub for the next few years

I wonder if the visit by Jeff Luong this month will mention this. He'll be in San Ramon on Jun 18th.

Hubs are ultimately going down to Atlanta and Dallas. We were told that on several calls.

…you believe everything leadership tells you? All it takes is a single email from Stankey (for example the Initial RTO email that reportedly caught even the highest execs off guard) and chaos ensues.

" The office doesn’t have any sign of AT&T, we occupy a small ugly place in that building and we can’t even afford the food of the cafeteria with what we get paid
And other tenants of the building look awesome, hopeful, fresh and rich, while we look tired and exhausted and empty."

Ha. Boy is this true at my location too. Huge company took over basically the entire building, except for a small hovel that the T employees still hole up in and live their designation. Outside the T space it's bright and beautiful everywhere, all newly renovated, Grade A office space. In the hovel it's poorly lit, never cleaned, with broken equipment, fixtures, and people.

Hubs are ultimately going down to Atlanta and Dallas. We were told that on several calls.

California did it to themselves. Everyone knows how radically progressive their state is. It’s like an entire state full of the most detached humans you can find.

Texas is where it’s at. Land of the MAGA, White and Blue.

means employees can now go back to working from home.

T has been working on getting out of CA for years!

Cost cutting has become a core business principle. It’s what we do. Your building is too nice too expensive and so are your salaries.

For T to be competitive the O-RAN project and replacing Nokia will cost more than 17 billion dollars, we can’t afford fancy offices, or even all the employees we have today
At least 90% of all offices and its expenses has to go and we need to let go at least 60 thousand employees in the next two years to keep the balance sheet healthy

If you have a good degree BS or master and be in the Bay Area with all the sharp companies next door and choose to work for AT&T then you have a serious issue, either you are slow or slow or most likely slow

I worked many years from this building with views of the lake and mountains, too bad I couldn’t enjoy any of that because of the stress and bad management and watching the company lose track of success and see myself getting poorer by the year while my friends in Apple and google and other companies in the Bay Area make three and four folds of what I make in AT&T
Every time I try to walk away I ask myself if I have the skills? If AT&T invested on me to stay up to date with the latest technology or I am also slipped away with AT&T to be less efficient and less attractive to this smart companies

Spellcheck. You missed a big fat R

The Texans like the Ca income. Figure Ca is 40% of income? California network is as big as rest of territories put together.
Maybe we could be Pacbell, again?

Don’t believe anything our management says, they all lie and they are good at it

AT&T is quitting California all together, not just the north, this plan was clear since 2016 when they sold all the buildings, California is expensive and what we do doesn’t require highly innovative people to invent the next technology, average technicians and average engineers will do the job perfectly
Why you think our leadership treat us like trash because they know they can replace us tomorrow with cheaper employees
No offense guys :)

AT&T bishop ranch office in San Ramon really summarize the story of AT&T, from the leaders of telco business in 1983 when this office built and hosted 18000 highly paid and skilled employees, we invented the first router, the first fiber optic, the first sfp, and first satellite data in that office to now …
The office doesn’t have any sign of AT&T, we occupy a small ugly place in that building and we can’t even afford the food of the cafeteria with what we get paid
And other tenants of the building look awesome, hopeful, fresh and rich, while we look tired and exhausted and empty.
AT&T doesn’t belong in this building anymore and we should move to some more appropriate place for us like a warehouse or shed

I was always proud of our office in San Ramon, now it is sad and hurt every time I go there, from 2mil sq ft lake front office to some dark smelly tiny place we call it office, I am glad the lease will expire in December

Everything eventually flows to Dallas and the failed leadership. It’s an at will company so, do yourself a favor and find other employment, it’s what they want.

Yeah.. the historic building on bush st San Francisco closed, and San Ramon executive parkway they moved us from the west wing after it was subleased to the north building and now the north building for sublease again, really don’t know, and to be honest I don’t care
This company is fu&$ed up

Check with your management they should know more