@hk I will be waiting on the edge of my seat for the big all hands call at the end of the month to see if there is a full explanation of what this looks like. I wonder how many people will submit questions asking about it? And maybe explain how that 250k is broken down between employees and contractors.
80k/170k changing to 50k/200k in coming months?
@hk I would like two of whatever he was on when he said that. If only someone could have said “WTF does that actually mean?” but in those corporate safe words that make people feel good about being a Rorschach test away from being in a facility with padded walls.
Maybe, “We are really holding space over your comments about undefined roles and functions. Do you feel safe enough to expand on that thought so we may all share in your vision of working without constricting definitions? Like who are you to put me in a box? It just sounds so amazing like drifting from place to place and doing whatever feels like a feeling at the moment right? Please share when you are ready while we sit with our thoughts.”
And then the crowd starts snapping very quietly so the applause won't trigger anyone's anxiety.
I bet we all heard that in the same voice.
@et On 9/30/2026 at the Ford Pro Accelerate event in Detroit.
https://fortune.com/2026/09/30/this-revolution-is-happening-in-years-not-decades-verizon-ceo-dan-schulman-sees-agi-within-18-months-and-a-century-of-progress-in-a-decade/
"Verizon, he said, has more than 250,000 employees and contractors and will need to move from a workforce organized around “very defined roles and functions” to a “much more fluid organization.”
How many things feel very wrong in that one sentence?
And he is ticking off actual tech engineers. After this was released, one of them posted this on X. Don't want to put his name but a search of the first line will get it. His initials are JLF
"Another CEO without a technical degree who "sees AGI within 18 months and a century of progress in a decade." America is being ruined by these types of know it all CEOs who don't try to fully understand AI and its applications before they form opinions."
And he got one reply from someone who knows what is really happening: "He was babbling statements to pump the stock."
Someone needs to stop him from speaking in public. It doesn't go well when you try to BS the people who actually know the subject matter.
@d5 where did Dan speak about this?
AJ office should have been closed a long time ago! There’s no reason not to let people work from home every day instead of in the office three days a week.
@bs I think you read that too literally. The question seems to be whether or not Verizon will continue to have a wireless business.
Working for wireless and having been to that office many times, I would think other people would like to know if it is being transitioned over to fulfill the great AGI plan.
Where we will live and work without defined roles and functions as Dan just explained to everyone yesterday.
@OP. What makes you think that?
BR would make a GREAT data center!
@bs I think the point was, is it going to continue to have a wireless department. I think the people in wireless might be interested in knowing that. I'm in wireless and I've been in that office. Is that office now transitioning to a data center because wireless is going away?
@a4 no, none of us do because it never was. It’s a very odd analogy to use MTV because IF they still only played music videos they would no longer exist and Verizon was NEVER simply a wireless company, that was Bell Atlantic creating a wireless division with Vodafone, which then merged with GTE creating Verizon wireless. So no, Verizon was never once simply a wireless company.
@a4 TL;DR
@a4 Translation, why fight AI data center protesters protesting against new data centers being built when all Verizon has to do is clear out it offices and convert them over to data centers while no one is paying attention. By the time they figure it out they will already be humming loudly 24/7.
Remember when Verizon was a wireless company like when MTV play music videos.
New data centers coming to an office near you. Will this be the newest data center in AJ?
https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/verizon-ceo-dan-schulman-hints-the-carrier-has-edge-inference-compute-deals-in-place/
Verizon CEO remains “excited” on the AI infrastructure opportunity, hinting that the carrier has signed up tenants for many of its decommissioned central offices where they can take advantage of the power and connectivity of those locations to run inference and edge computing services.
Schulman’s tease was during a conversation at this week’s Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, where the executive noted Verizon is “fortunate” to be in the “right place at the right time to be a part of one of the greatest capital expenditure things around AI infrastructure that we've ever seen in our generation.”
“It opens up a quite large [total] addressable market for us. It's growing quite rapidly, and we have the right assets in place and experience to take advantage of it,” Schulman said of this “insatiable” market demand.
Schulman explained that Verizon position is in “connecting data centers together to provide even greater compute” where there “is absolutely the need for dark fiber connectivity” and where “we have a lot of dark fiber capability.” Verizon recently enhanced this capability through a multi-year fiber supply agreement with Corning.
“Fiber is in short supply … and we have now got a full supply of that,” Schulman said of that deal. “It's a good one for both our companies, but it enables us to do all the build that we need to without being supply constrained because the demand for that interconnectivity is quite large, and we'll continue to build on that drumbeat of announcements that we had.”
The one around the corner from the switch with the parking garage?
GTFOH