Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

You all lost me. I put the severance on a nice money market and the interest and market increases have sustained me great while I work my new job and my wife works on her masters degree. We didn't miss a beat. Got my partial pension, which has made up 1/8th so far back from the difference T scraped away from me. I am not handling critical things for T anymore of course and I'm sure you feel the ripples. I was a nice guy for you all and kept people from fighting while also being highly technical.

The mechanism to get rid of people is targeted at people who are over 50, pensioners, and it left the door wide open to let people choose to leave (wave 2 got 8 months to decide). The mechanism that exists now, cares the least, since those early layoffs were feeling out the feasibility of this whole thing and it was pretty successful. My advice is, never stop looking out for yourself ... health, stress, personal time ... because T wants to own your compensation for that too. Family first. Att is not your family.

BTW Amazon is also 5 days a week and their stock hasn’t exactly soared in the last couple of months either. RTO at best does little to nothing to impact stock price and at worst is a negative.

Where are you getting your market info from as you are dead wrong.....

Amazon Stock is up 47.6% since 2023. Amazon Stock in 2024 was $155.20 in 2025 the stock as of today it is $215.42 and it is up so it has soared since 2023....

"the laptop never comes out the bag after hours"

That is exactly my experience. Once I leave my work table for the day I do not pull my laptop out of the briefcase until I am back at the table the next morning. When I was WFH or 3x8 I would leave the laptop connected and check on things throughout the evening. Not any more . . . 8 & skate, it can wait -- out the door by 4. In a way it has been liberating.

"Why is it so hard for so many employees to come to work and do what they're paid to do?"

Because the world completely changed back when ATT was a predominantly hybrid company prior to Covid converting ATT into a WFH company.

Why is it so hard for so many employees to come to work and do what they're paid to do?

But don’t forget to save the company money by going to NETWORKING Conferences remotely!

Make it make sense!

You’re forgetting about the worst part of RTO. The initial 3 wave shed was the most impactful because there were backfills associated with the exits. Those backfills were mostly of the id--t nature. They are here to stay and they are not half as smart and hard working as the ones that were let go.

RTO has no real-world impact.
It’s all boomer optics.

@a9 Same here. Commute cut 5+ hours a week when I would otherwise be working and the laptop never comes out the bag after hours whereas before I would check in when needed during off hours. I work to satisfy the supposedly ignored presence report and no more. I am far from the only one.

BTW Amazon is also 5 days a week and their stock hasn’t exactly soared in the last couple of months either. RTO at best does little to nothing to impact stock price and at worst is a negative.

"Sure you did."

Absolutely I did. That commute into the office is now part of the work day I used to give to the company. Not anymore! You can believe what you want but I am not the only one who has cut their hours to accommodate the commute.

@a9 like it or not, this is a FACT for most people. The current stock price reflects the productivity loss.

" It has been essential to getting more employees closer to approaching 40-hour work weeks."

Yep, I cut my hours from 55-60 WFH down to 40-45 RTO. I guess the C-suite got the desired effect. And let's not forget about taking all those CGDO days and Sick time because I am not allowed work outside the office. I have taken more sick days in 2025 than I have in the other 20+ years I have worked for this company. Great Job Stankey and the Board!

Morale is low? I'll have you know that we are having a costume competition next week and there will be free bags of cheetos and pretzels! This place is bananas!

@a2 does the stock price reflect that claim? I think it’s quite the opposite. Un-suction yourself from stinks grundle and wake up.

It got rid of some people. That was the goal. Just didn’t get rid of enough people, so they are going to have to cut more. Said so yesterday on the earnings call, though they never say cut people directly, they say reduce overhead and tighten our spending, layoffs incoming. Likely in the newly few weeks so they can hit Q4 targets.

RTO has been driving more consistent productivity. It has been essential to getting more employees closer to approaching 40-hour work weeks.

Make no mistake the stock price IS dropping because of RTO. Knowledge and “do-ers” walk out the door everyday because they don’t live in the right zip code. They sacrificed the company just so the board can appease their Blackrock overlords. Time’s running out to make a change.