Att is too top heavy in the sense that there are too many management positions that overlap job duties. Randall if you are reading pay close attention they are a cutting into share owners dividends.
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Directors and AVPs are the most worthless of all employees at AT&T.
For the person that spoke about level 3/4 layoffs should happen, it’s already happening, over the last 2 years T had reduces their 3s, 4s and 5s through forced retirements and merging markets in different orgs.
As for the excess useless calls, that’s true, but that’s not in the power of most people in leadership, it’s the officer in charge of the org who sets the culture and it trickles down to the VPs, Directors, etc. Unfortunately ATT is an old school company and useless bureaucracy and calls is part of the culture.
@2bcd, I agree, those 20 person calls happen though not at a frequent rate. More often, as you seem to know, it’s a gathering of smaller teams looking to get the co-op of one or two other teams, the team(s) of the client as an example. Getting everyone on the same page is incredibly time consuming, especially over distant time zones.
These clients can be east coast, west coast, Europe, South American, Malaysia, Japan and the list goes on. Can this be done ‘in office?’ Sure, just tell your cube mate to keep their conversations with their perspective teams to a minimum....No, not likely, huh? And when you need to talk with a client at 4pm, it’s not exactly possible when that client is on U.K. time, or perhaps Japan.
One last thought, how many of us spend a lot of time BSing with our cube mate, or even the cube across from us, when not on conference calls? I’d venture quite a few. Wasting of company time takes many avenues and you don’t have to be on a call to do it.
Our bosses know if we are helping to get the bills paid on a consistent basis because our work reflects on them and there is always a higher level looking over ‘their shoulder.’ The goof offs get surplussed and I’m willing to bet that those that are invited out the door have a work review that backs that up, in most cases.
we need to keep those in 3rd and 4th level otherwise nobody would be able to cascade emails down to their sub-ordinates that say "fyi..."
It is compensation awards like Randalls that is driving socialism in America.We really need to adopt the Japanese way of paying these corporate politicians.
much of the conference calls are like 20 people on the call with 2-3 people contributing and paying attention, the rest are showing up to act like they care or that they have to. in any event, most aren't paying attention because they are trying to follow several q chats and meeting rooms simultaneously. in any event, nothing really gets done and nobody really cares.
Much of the Qing and conference calling is not actually producing anything. There is a pipeline of busy work so management can justify their jobs. Everyone sees this. Daily.
Agree. Too many middle managers who have conference calls about nothing.
@1fhq, you are spot on when you say “we do need good managers.” I am a retired spouse of one of those managers that work from home, and here is where you’re wrong. He, and many managers like him, do pick up the phone and balances an average day of 8am-6pm, usually much longer. Schedule calls that are anywhere from 6am to midnight because of overseas accommodations and the list could go on.
Our average daily commute time, to and from work round trip is 1hr 20 minutes. I know because when he’s in, I drive him. Working from home, though his boss can’t see him, keeps him more productive and that boss knows it! People like him simply can’t kick back, relax and ignore calls, the endless scheduled calls and the constant Q’s that go on between countless people and the “meeting minutes” that must be attended to once these calls end, and I’ve only scratched the surface.
His boss, and many like them, know who is, or is not being productive. Who is getting their CR’s done, on time and under budget.
For those who understood the last paragraph, you know how things are....for those, in other lines of work who don’t and have a complaint then you simply don’t understand, and with respect, you can’t sit in judgement.
All managers are scrutinized for work production at least yearly, sometimes more. Like any upper level manager, they too must account for the production, or lack of it, that goes on below them.
“And that’s all I have to say about that!”
Wireless has many managers that work from home and never seem to be able to answer the phone... That said we still do need good managers.
Wireless has many managers that work from and never seem to be able to answer the phone... That said we still do need good managers.
1pel, you realize T is operated to enrich the shareholders. Any incidental gain by the employees is secondary. As far as the company is concerned the fewer employees the better.
via MarketWatch.com
AT AT&T excluded nearly 13,000 of its roughly 33,000 overseas workers from the sample used to determine media compensation. Stephenson's total compensation was largely in-line with his 2016 total of $28.4 million, and includes $1.8 million in base salary, $16.7 million in stock awards, $5.1 million in incentive-plan compensation, $3.4 million in deferred salary and $1.5 million in other compensation. Stephenson has been CEO of AT&T since 2007, and the company's stock has declined 5.4% in that time, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.06% has increased 91.9%.
We have WAY too many level three and four managers. That’s where the cuts need to come from.
Management, yes. You are overpaid and need to go.
FU and your dividends, you want people to loose their jobs to make a few extra bucks?