The new Plano headquarters project, and what it signals about how AT&T wants its people to work, offers further evidence that RTO(Return to Office) has become the industry standard.
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Pascale ran before that building financing comes back to haunt him.
Michael Ford is a grade a cuck and Stinky Balld Washer.
@av , and they probably pay much more than does T.
If Verizon and T Mobile are WFH, why are you still at T crying on this forum?
Tesla and SpaceX require 40hrs in office.
No idea why we are still debating what RTO is or isn’t, how it is or isn’t effective, and whether people like it.
This place is being run into the ground by old ways of thinking and doing business while cheering that it is a forward-thinking company.
Reality is that they want to outsource as much as possible to save as much as possible because the company is one big money loss propped up by govt contracts and random other collaborations.
Doesn’t matter if who likes it, who does it, who doesn’t do it, or anything else. They’re just looking for reasons and ways to fire you for cause or get you to quit.
They have, at best, ambivalence towards our workforce. They have, at worst, resentment and hatred towards our workforce.
The beatings will continue regardless of morale.
I go into the office for no reason; we only talk through TEAMS and have no "Head-to-Head" Pow Wows or meetings. RTO makes no sense. But, I have seen others NOT work as much when they talk about making big dinners, watching TV, walking away to do things and only be at keyboard to "look busy" a couple times an hour. Soo, who knows.
See you on the soccer field brother!!
AT&T is being held in a debtors prison.
The lienholders say 'jump', and T says 'how high?'
Industry standard?
7.2% of Fortune 500 companies are 5x in office as of Nov 2026, 44% hybrid, the rest are a combination of fully remote and hybrid. Most depends on the team, job function and location.
In telecommunications only ATT is 5x, the competitors that are eating our lunch btw are still mostly remote with very few teams being hybrid. Since we’ve RTO’d we’ve gone from 1 to 3.
Industry standard? No, let’s cut the bs.