I've heard from multiple people that we are going to be forced back to the office 5 days/week starting 1/1. My biggest question is: why? I haven't seen a single productivity metric from the C-Suite. I thought they'd already hit their goal of layoffs. Who will be left to even make this company function anymore?
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My VP informed us today that we are back to 5 days per week 8hrs per day starting immediately. He shared insight into how leadership has been collecting massive amounts of data on how many hours employees are actually working during the day and the numbers were staggeringly low with the average being 20hrs per week. Some of the ways this is being determined is the amount of time employees PC's are connected to the corporate LAN, keystrokes & mouse clicks per hour on those PC's, time spent on MS teams meetings, etc. He did relate that there is going to be very little tolerance for low work hours based on the algorithms the company is using to determine work productivity, and people will be cut loose if low work hour trends and repetitive paterns are seen with those individuals. So just being on the corporate LAN will not qualify as being in the office and "working". Big Brother is watching and not in a good way. My VP also said the company has a 3-4 year plan to return to the Whiticare era of profitability with no debt and it's going to be painful, he stated " Winter is coming". We all know what that means.
If T wants to full time RTO and go back to the 90’s, then provide the following:
- Assigned desk space with locking cabinets.
- Office supplies, notebooks, post-its, pens, pencils, whiteboards, markers that actually work, etc.
- Garbage pickup.
- Cubes with walls.
- Phones/headsets.
- Coffee/Snacks/Water
- Quality monitor, mouse, keyboard and docking station
Anything else I’m missing?
“My Director said level 3s and up will be 5 days starting Jan 1st, level 1s and 2s will be sometime later next year when they can give everyone an assigned seat. Not sure if that was just for our org or company wide”
Legal is mainly level 4s and we haven’t been told to report 5 days. 3 days not enforced outside Dallas.
Probably some work from home Harvard graduate consultant told them productivity will increase working 5 days in office.
My department (Engineering) is reducing from 3 to only 2 days a week in the office.
I dont like Rto but if its just pre 2020 BAU fine.
Give me an assigned spot where i can lock up personal items and give me office supplies. Dont make me come back to a call center like environment while i try to concentrate on non-matching monitors, a dirty keyboard, and no office supplies.
Our group under Legg-Elbaz was informed of this today. No formal communication or timeline, but the expectation is that FTO will be expected in office 5 days a week in the near future.
Always was their plan, they only attempted to soften the blow by doing the 3 days at the office thing. I'm glad I got laid off.
“My Director said level 3s and up will be 5 days starting Jan 1st, level 1s and 2s will be sometime later next year when they can give everyone an assigned seat. Not sure if that was just for our org or company wide”
We were told something similar. It’s staggered while they figure out the seating issues in Atlanta at least.
My Director said level 3s and up will be 5 days starting Jan 1st, level 1s and 2s will be sometime later next year when they can give everyone an assigned seat. Not sure if that was just for our org or company wide
Bottom line is that when it comes to any ‘culture’ or other fuzzy initiative like sustainability (guess we’re ok with all the extra cars on the road from this) or the company purpose cr-p - connecting changes everything but we don’t trust our products to connect our own employees - leadership has zero credibility.
What they say and what they do have no correlation and they couldn’t care less how stupid and sleazy it makes them look.
If I hear anything about supporting working parents or mental health I will seriously throw up.
Part of the plan is natural attrition. But these dinosaurs won't leave. So why make them comfortable sitting at home.
Nothing will happen if you don’t go in. RTO never enforced it’s a joke.
‘The cataclysmic mistake in strategy that was the purchase of Time Warner and DTV, and then the sale of those assets later, should have been enough to get him removed.’
They all got rich dude. All they did was move the assets over to TPG at a deep discount. AT&T and TPG owned the new company and later AT&T gave it all to TPG. Follow the money. Plenty of investors in TPG reaped millions because of these transactions. It’s not just DTV and Time Warner, it’s real estate for pennies on the dollar also.
Fleecing right before your eyes Son.
THE
F***ERS
DONT
CARE
Regarding the Boomer CEO. I don't know how the Board hasn't gotten rid of him. The cataclysmic mistake in strategy that was the purchase of Time Warner and DTV, and then the sale of those assets later, should have been enough to get him removed. Wall Street recognized it and punished T with the sell-off of T shares. Sadly it punished those people who had a pension too, which is so heavily funded with T stock.
Stankey should have been sent packing long ago. Under his tenure the stock tanked and he had gutted the company's human resources, with little regard for somehow securing the hundreds of thousands of man-years of knowledge and experience in the employee base. He has no strategy but cut heads and budgets. I don't know how he thinks that he will get the company growing again with a skeleton crew. The lack of experi3nce and institutional knowledge will force the company to reinvent the wheel, over and over again.
Getting workers to work.
This is confirmed, I’m in Dallas and I have several friends in several work groups who have received the communication. My director told us today as well, but nothing in writing yet.
This is what happens when you have a dinosaur boomer CEO who thinks his public utility is a tech company and he’s the only one doing any real work.
To get you to quit.
Long way to go on layoffs. Wall street wanted us under 85,000 employees like 4 years ago. They probably want us closer to 60k now. RTO, which is just age-discriminatory terminations via constructive discharge, will not stop until it stops accomplishing their goal of getting people over 50 to retire or resign without severance. They do it because it works and the courts have not stopped them.