Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

"We should all expect the C Suite and executives to RTO 5 days a week, 8 hours a day at a desk. Time spent on a corporate jet, attending PR events, or on investor calls does not count. We need butts in seats."

In addition, the C Suite needs to be in open office space with the rest of us. Turn their offices into conference rooms.

AVP in HR: No, RTO full time is not about forcing attrition. We just think it's the right thing to do.

Maybe if they say it enough, they'll believe it and can start to sleep at night.

Ed Hayes email from 12/16: "good news" email about people losing "90s style shoulder pad" private offices next year in favor of "open space cubicles".

We should all expect the C Suite and executives to RTO 5 days a week, 8 hours a day at a desk. Time spent on a corporate jet, attending PR events, or on investor calls does not count. We need butts in seats.

“When we’re not together in the office, it’s harder for us to indoctrinate new employees into our culture.” - Jeremy Legg

“ Doesn't matter what anyone says. Your going to be miserable and angry regardless.”

Yuri…if you no do good job trolling we send you to Ukraine to sniff for mines.

The little smirk Corey tried to hide when he said there will not be assigned seating said it all.

Paraphrasing Corey Anthony:

We can bring everyone back into the office that may not be appropriately sized for that because not everyone will be there.

Um, huh???

Corey said:

Actually I couldn’t understand what Corey said.

Heard on a town hall recording. “We don’t make stupid decisions, we may make mistakes, but not stupid decisions.”

Trying to fit 3000 people in a building designed for 1600.

Doesn't matter what anyone says. Your going to be miserable and angry regardless.

“ The credibility for the top personnel comes from Wall Street. Some of these people are going to make some huge money with the recent rise of the stock.”

As much as I hate RTO, the actual business decisions have made some sense (shedding DTV, Warner, rate plan changes etc). That said, the way they are treating the people implementing this is what is causing so much of the hate. If we’re doing as well as they say we are, then all of this was accomplished remotely or hybrid. There’s still no justification for RTO and the relocation cr-p and so on. They would have so much more buy-in and respect from employees if they were just honest and showed a little understanding of how their messaging lacks credibility.

We all agree that the current leadership is ineffective when measured by employee sentiment. They fudge the numbers so Wall Street blesses them but it is all smoke and mirrors and we all know it.
No better at Verizon or anywhere else either. I think they are all in trouble.

“ Once presence reports became more granular and easier to read, senior leadership was shocked and appalled to see the widespread working patterns of many employees. They had no choice but to reverse course and implement RTO given how few managers were actually working an expected minimum of 40 hours.”

As has been said before, presence doesn’t equal work. If they think people work 8 hours in an office with little to no breaks, they are even more clueless than they sound.

If people really aren’t working it should be shown in their results and the right action should be taken. If you don’t know what results they are generating, that’s on their manager. And if they are doing their job and are just efficient , then this is just performative productivity BS. No matter how you look at it, they are measuring the wrong things and taking the wrong actions as a result.

“ HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THIS CR4P. HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LAYOFFS.”

Seems like Yuri at the troll farm in Yakutsk is having a bad day. I guess -34 degrees Fahrenheit and having to shill for some Yankee telephone company will do that to you.

Once presence reports became more granular and easier to read, senior leadership was shocked and appalled to see the widespread working patterns of many employees. They had no choice but to reverse course and implement RTO given how few managers were actually working an expected minimum of 40 hours.

The credibility for the top personnel comes from Wall Street. Some of these people are going to make some huge money with the recent rise of the stock.

fairy tale leadership that get impressed with shiny mirrors

HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THIS CR4P. HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LAYOFFS.

Those grossly overpaid corporate t0adies are FAR from being “leaders”!

Anonymous AVP “I know we are used to connecting using smartphones and tablets, but times have changed and we have to be in office on our laptops for the hours to count. “

Connection changes everything, indeed.

HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THIS CR-P. HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LAYOFFS.

From my VP “This is how we worked before COVID.” Sure, there was also a time not too long ago when collaboration tools didn’t exist/were cr-ppy, smartphones didn’t exist and high-speed home internet was rare to non-existent. And AT&T was trying to be an entertainment company. Let’s go back to all that because you know, we did that before COVID.