I hate RTO because they can't give me a dedicated spot to sit in every day but my work/life balance has not gotten worse because of it. I'm actually doing less because once I go home, I don't touch my laptop. Stays in the trunk of my car until the next day whether they say I'm not supposed to leave it in there or not. If they don't want it stolen and want me in the office 5 days a week, give me a space in the office I can leave it at.
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You can use any leftover time to capitalize on collaboration opportunities.
So should I work to time or to task?
If I complete my tasks in less than 40 hours, what are the expectations? It’s a fair question.
You've got a lot of work ahead of you, clearing up this widely-held misconception. Here are just a few examples:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jockeying-desks-parking-t-workers-095302161.html
AT&T began implementing its staggered five-day return-to-office mandate on Monday.
https://tech.co/news/att-five-day-return-to-office
Instead of investing in party hats and streamers, telecommunications giant AT&T is welcoming the new year with a mandatory five-day return to the office – much to the disdain of its workforce.
https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2024-12-19-att-mandates-five-day-return-to-desks-from-january
Telecommunications giant AT&T has announced a full return-to-office (RTO) policy requiring employees to work in person five days a week starting January 2025.
Get off this board and start your crusade against misleading journalism! Or are you only comfortable being an a--hole while hiding in anonymity?
“No one is being forced in. Employees continue to have choice.”
No sh1t Sherlock.
The point comments like the OP is making is in hope that the company we’ve worked for over very long periods of our life finds its way to respect and treat employees better than we’ve seen recently.
“Proper performance monitoring and corrective action would result in much less of this, with no one forced in.”
No one is being forced in. Employees continue to have choice.
you'll never see "work-life-balance" again on a company email, or on those flyers they send to employees via snail mail. W-L-B is D-O-A.
WTF. It’s balanced. You work your a-s off and when you stop they kick you out the fu--ing back door. That’s it. All balanced!
Get back to work sweetie
Ask blackrock. You know, Boomer Stankey’s puppet master
“I and team.,,,,” - M0r0n
This thinking is of right mind. I and team use the flexing of time to got job complete. If i have deadline of other company, Sunil can do the flex to complete the codings for said work. Later, Ravi can do also the flexing on the flex of Sunil. Meanwhile we bill company also for thrice employees. This is how I and said team can be value adding for mister leggs.
“Would have been nice if mgmt would have just said it and managed accordingly. Get rid of the slackers and let the committed folks do what they do. Looks like they chose a different option so does that mean they had other objectives? I think they did.”
I second, third and fourth this sentiment. T is a POS wasteland of oozing leadership pu-s.
The majority are working unapproved short weeks, for weeks on end, and management hasn't noticed or cared? Must not have been that big of a deal.
Colossal leadership failure, if ghost employees are allowed to exist for years on end. Proper performance monitoring and corrective action would result in much less of this, with no one forced in.
That is what RTO is. Go to work then go home and have life. You get PTO, weekends, and Holidays for balance.
“Updated presence reports have confirmed the majority of employees haven’t even regularly been working a minimum 40 hours”
The presence reports also are not accurate and have defects, just read the blurb at the bottom of the RTO troubleshooter that states such. I know folks that got accused of not doing their full time that actually were.
Also going to point out it was less than 10% that weren’t meeting the minimums. That in and of itself is a management problem. Verifications should have been done and those employees put on notice. They shouldn’t be punishing everyone.
Managers need to make sure their employees have enough work to keep them busy, this is also why there is a “flex” part in an exempt managers hours per the law. I.e. I’m actually not required to work 40 legally. I’m required to work to get the job complete. Sometimes that means way more than 40, the flex part comes in where it’s supposed to go both ways, some weeks might be 80hrs, some weeks are dead and only 20hrs of work. Technically I’m supposed to be able to get some of my time back on those slow weeks. That’s the spirit of the law. Exempt managers are being tracked hourly, expected to work specific hours, and penalized for working less than 40. That makes you misclassified and a challenge needs to be made to state DOL and/or federal as that violates the law. You may have claim to overtime pay.
Updated presence reports have confirmed the majority of employees haven’t even regularly been working a minimum 40 hours each week.
You have 2 employees: 1 works less than 40 hrs/week and makes/saves his employer $100K after his salary. The other works over 40 hours/week and makes/saves employer less than that. Do you want the one who makes/saves you more or less money working for you?
AT&T needs more work, less balance.
THET
DONT
CARE
Gone.
T wants to get rid of whatever the headcount number is they are looking for, since T isn’t making revenue and due to the bad business decisions.
Those who are left after the right-sizing occurs can tell us if work-life balance EVER returns.
“Updated presence reports have confirmed the majority of employees haven’t even regularly been working a minimum 40 hours”
Yeah, I’m sure some level of abuse happened plus corp real estate concerns plus corp tax concerns drove RTO. Would have been nice if mgmt would have just said it and managed accordingly. Get rid of the slackers and let the committed folks do what they do.
Looks like they chose a different option so does that mean they had other objectives?
I think they did.
Too many AT&T employees have been focused on the life component without wanting to do the expected share of work. Updated presence reports have confirmed the majority of employees haven’t even regularly been working a minimum 40 hours each week. Don’t we all know ghost employees who can never be reached when remote? That is an extreme but too many employees were working well under 8 hours per day. AT&T will undoubtedly go back to a hybrid model after a couple years when the workforce is right sized and employees with the correct idea of work life balance remain.
This expalins it nicely..
https://youtu.be/eNo0oy9gRak?si=a-IU451GkXUnXOwF