Well, we have dropped like a rock since the initial RTO 3x and are plumbing new lows with 5x. All the academics and studies are saying it’s a failure. The future workplace is remote. This is just the last gasps of a dying high cost business model. I bet in 20 years hardly any work is done in an office. Only select jobs are in person where FTF matters. But I digress, they want to preach disruption, well, enable remote options, create new products and services around it. It should be our bread and butter as we are a communications company.
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"What the h3ll is wrong with you people? 5-day RTO is the standard now"
Just because you keep repeating a lie does not make it a truth. Most companies (well over 60%) are still hybrid, outside B&M retail, restaurants, and healthcare. But even healthcare is moving towards virtual doc visits.
So, You can STFU yourself so that you can keep your lips firmly embedded in Stank's A$$.88
What the h3ll is wrong with you people? 5-day RTO is the standard now and it is a mandate. Bottom line....if you don't like it, QUIT. Stop f-ucking complain. Is that clear?
@da what a silly post.
Don’t you think that technology has evolved?
Big deal if you applied for work in 1995 and reported to a brick and mortar building.
It’s nearly 2026 and things evolve.
Get with the program.
@bz TL;DR
@da I no longer work for AT&T but I have been remote my entire 2+ decade career, including when I did work there. Your perspective is small minded. Remote workers aren't lazy or entitled. They are in fact often much more productive than workers who are in office. A telecommunications company forcing people to RTO is so laughable. & it certainly is not because of the employees like they have framed it. It's just a way of doing layoffs without having to pay severance, for these large enterprises.
@dc I would say it is abusive when you have already been working successfully for many years from home. Especially when you are forcing people to up-end their families and relocate in order to work in an office that doesn't even have a seat for you, to what end? It's insane that there are people who support these policies.
Yeah this has been beat to death. I think the proof is in the metrics, we haven’t seen any great upticks in anything positive, unless attrition is the goal. We’ve actually seen everything go lower - revenue, churn, nps, pretty much all of it. At some point they have to go well John, this hasn’t worked out so well, maybe we need to revisit hybrid. If the employees aren’t happy, you aren’t going to grow the business or improve results, just the opposite.
@db
What? RTO in an office is not abuse. There will always be groups who appear to receive 'preferential' treatment over others. Enterprise/global sales teams typically always work away from an office, while other sales teams may be required to work in an office. That's not preferential, though because those teams are often regularly at customer locations. And those employees typically often put in far more than 40 hours and are never paid overtime.
You have no valid argument when you say some employees can WFH but others cannot.
This is work, a job, for an employer who pays you do the work, Dude, not middle school!
The level of immaturity here is astounding! Seriously!
@dc Mistreatment of employees in name of work in office and allowing someone but not others is discrimination and abuse
A requirement to work in an office is not abuses. LOL
@da Smart people raise voices against employers abuse, thats what they are doing before falling in any type of fraud happens to them, there are many instances where they forces to RTO where others are still doing WFH, there are many who lost their jobs due to fruad presence reports which is proved inaccurate and wrong still it was used to fire them and no video evidences shown to them justifying what was done was correct. Before its too late and they become victim they are complaining. But again instead raising voice here better to raise inside AT&T HR portals would be better.
This is such a ridiculous topic. When you applied for the job, you didn't tell ATT where and when you'd only work--if you had, they would have shown you the door. Employers have ALWAYS determined the hours of work, always, and where you are needed to work. Now that world has moved past an epidemic, some employees feel entitled to stamp their feet and demand that they work wherever they please!
You people are foolish!
Start your own business then you can make the rules. That's what smart, talented people do!
@d7 Well said. There are so many who don’t understand our work does not require office presence but keep arguing whatever fed to them.
@by Everyone is contributing still getting targeted either in name of RTO or presence reports, that is the reason people are raising their voice, but instead of raising here they should keep raising a complain inside AT&T against HRBPs and CEO and CTOs, its not a small company that no one listen it. One or other day it will be surely benefit everyone and their voice will be listened.
@cz hey d-mba$$ maybe it’s because those jobs REQUIRE in person presence, and ours, being nothing like anything you mentioned do not. That’s why 75% of companies still operate in a Hybrid/WFH model and not 5 days.
@a4 People are not complaining about 3 days or 5 days RTO, they are complaining about discrimination they are seeing across AT&T and the fraud being done by AT&T in name of RTO and presence reports.Its very easy to say if you don’t like it then quit, but the best example is our CEO keep doing blunders but still remain here.
@cb If policy is equal for everyone then its ok, but you fire someone in name of RTO and allow others to do remote and WFH is not good. These things like RTO, presence reports are made intentionally by AT&T to support unethical fraudulent activities.So, they use it whenever they wish even though their reports are wrong.
I do hope that the next survey asks and analyses the data on the opposition of RTO. What a simple way to get the numbers desired to reduce headcount. Reminder those surveys aren't really anonymous right!?
It would be a win-win for both sides. You wouldn't have to RTO, like ever. Fingers crossed!
Super cute. Like a toddler trying to boss their parents around.
Guess what? I'm at home again today, you little gnat, where I'll also be the rest of the week and weeks to come.
Post harder next time, and maybe someone will care about your opinions. Probably not, but there are some incredibly d-mb people out there. Look in the mirror if you need an example.
Toodle-loo!
Again, why is it that those in the medical, child care, education, public service sectors, etc. have complied with RTO yet you, field techs, feel you are entitled to WFH?
Surely their occupations are no less valuable than yours! Maybe it's time to look for something else to do with your life.
@cm I was not asking you. I demand you 5-day RTO and 8 hours a day. You listen well and you get to stay. I want you to suffer and complain. If you continue to complain, I will MAKE you and all your A$$HOLE colleagues work 996. Are you clear? Now, get your A$$ back to work before I visit your desk and have a conversation. Peace and chill, dude.
Man, some of you are really invested in where other people work. Weird and creepy fr fr.
@cp Inspired by our CEO, keep doing blunders and still stay.
"You are a full time employee and need to contribute as such."
Yep, the new definition for "full time" is 40 hours, down from the 55-60 hours I worked in my home office. But hey -- it's culture baby!
You cry about RTO night and day
and yet you stay
Make me, bootlicker. You won't. Your abilities are strictly limited to impotent whining on an anonymous board. Certainly a proud accomplishment for you!
Again, no. Ask again and you will be told the same. The hope is that eventually you will comprehend, but that hope is fading fast.
Since you seem to speak for stank and his buttlick brigade, please let him know that I'm waiting on a fat severance package or else I'll be here, accomplishing little, exhibiting poor attitude, and racking up checks until the bitter end.
Have the day that you deserve.
RTO my kcid. Stankonia and the union troll need to go live in mh a13.
That's great because it hasn't done much for your intelligence or sense of humor.
@c8 Where? In Northpark or Lennox?
@c9 nobody trusts him or his “vision” wait til you see how bad Q4 and Q1 26 are about to be. He’s cooking the books for his golden parachute 🪂
@cd ATT needs to get rid of people like you - not productive and constant negativity. You ARE the problem why our stock price is in the low 20's. Help your fellow colleagues by resigning your position - effective today. Peace okay?
Again, no. I refuse and you aren't going to do anything, meek little peon. Get stank's boot out of your esophagus and maybe that walnut brain of yours will start to show some activity.
@a6 Stop being a racist A$$HOLE. It is your company's decision to hire oversea talented folks.
Why is everyone so upset about the 5-day RTO? Life is simple and it is how you manage it. If you don't like it, quit. If you can't change the company, change yourself to make it works. You are free to stay at home 5 days a week. ATT is not forcing anyone in to the office for 5 days. It is their policy. You either accept it or quit - very simple.
No. I refuse. What are you prepared to do now, tough guy? Additional crying on a message board doesn't count.
Another strong quarter by AT&T just announced with more than expected wireless subscriber adds. Thank you Big John for your leadership. Haters gonna hate but we trust in your vision, employee culture transformation, and convergence.
All the CSO folks I sit around are still 3 days in the office per week.
tldr
WFH maintains my golf handicap.