Q: What does it take to create a workplace culture that transforms a company into an employer of choice?
Means that AT&T likes: Taking care of employees at every stage of their career journeys as they move into, within, and out of your organization.
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Management makes the strategic decisions, the C-level people are not just regular employees they are steering the company strategically.
Debt, is just one of the problems they have created, they push old ideas and technology because they are clueless dinosaurs.
this more like it:
"It’s woefully under-skilled millennial employee base—the ones who are under the impression they're cutting edge when in fact their so-called innovations should be ignored"
Letting Randy off the hook? Debt was the first problem posted! Can you read?
And is Randy not a long time employee?
So much fail in that post.
Interesting that you let Randy and his gang off the hook and instead blame the long term employees for the company's problems.
I think the main problem that almost everyone else recognizes is poor C-level management and the focus on making short term bonuses rather than building a modern vibrant company.
And then there is all the out sourcing that brings in low skilled contractors just because they are cheap.
At this point, AT&T is completely screwed when it comes to retaining top millennial talent. Sure, they’ll get them in the door, but once they see how things operate, and how untrustworthy and vindictive these AT&T veterans are, they’ll be out in 6-12 months.
Two problems AT&T faces:
Debt.
It’s woefully under-skilled and aging employee base—the ones who stall, thwart and destroy innovation at every step.
There is a real feeling that this company is circling the drain right now, while it attempts to line up its WarnerMedia Hail Mary. And one of the main reasons for this is that people on the high profile projects that are supposed to transform this company know damn well that they don’t have the necessary funding or people power to make any of this happen in a way that truly captures the market’s attention.
Can’t speak for the WarnerMedia people—they might be very good, but I can speak for the AT&T and DIRECTV side of things. It’s a mess.