So to the corporate leadership of AT&T… I think the overwhelming majority of employees don’t have any issue with RTO. For those whose jobs really dictate they be in office and working collaborating with others five days also no issues but of course there are many whose jobs dictate that they may be out of the office two or three days a week in the field, and then others who work in locations where there may not be many other people on their team and they work across markets or across regions or the country. Those being in a defined location or coming in more than two or three days a week doesn’t really mean anything because there’s no one else for them to really collaborate with in person. In general, the employees have shown how efficient and productive they can be as seen during the pandemic and post pandemic
Why when the company has really turned things around financially, headed in the right direction and has a lot of employees eager and excited about where we are going, would you take it upon yourselves to be so heavy handed with the RTO? Forcing people to relocate? Forcing people to decide to give up a job that they’ve had for 5, 10, 15 years that they’re good at because you’re insisting they relocate.
Why take the enormous and positive momentum we’ve built over the last two years in particular and blow it up by behaving in such a manner. All you’re doing is pi----g off your employees even the ones who stay are becoming angry and disenchanted you’re and not just turning off current employees, but you’re gonna be turning away future younger employees who see and hear what’s going on at AT&T and don’t see it as a progressive forward thinking company.
Wake up and realize the heart and soul of this company is its people and your actions are undermining what makes this company great…people who care deeply about what we do and how we can make the company succeed.
You recently created these new workplace designations, and it makes sense that anyone who has an FTO designation would likely be in the office five days a week at an assigned location while those with other distant designations, such as the few who have virtual and the many others who have MS would be Either in designated locations or bounce between locations coming in 2 to 3 days per week.