It appears that the old SBC policies are now going into affect at the new at&t thus upsetting the 'former' AT&T employees - from having worked for SBC I remember that they didn't care much for telecommuting.
RE: AT&T's commitment to celebrated telework program questioned
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 5:14pm
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RE: AT&T's commitment to celebrated telework program questioned
This direction certainly contradicts the the most basic guiding principles of a so-called industry leading telecommunications company. So much for the "do anything from anywhere" vision . . .
I'm shocked! AT&T would
I'm shocked! AT&T would rather spend more money to house all of these workers, pay for the extra utilities etc. Have more people on the roads causing increased traffic and pollution. Less productivity because honestly teleworking is in my experience much more productive then working in an office environment.
What does this say to their customers who could utilize more of AT&T's services for their own telework programs?
And while the U.S. Patent and Trademark office in Arlington, VA is pushing workers to telecommute large corporations like AT&T stick them back in a cube.
ATT Telecommute
The old SBC managers are stuck WAY back in time! Having been an ATT employee in a cutting edge company, we now all feel we have travelled back about 30 years after the SBC aquisition. These old, and I do mean elderly, executives have no clues about technology or anything current, especially telecommuting. Expect to have ancient 30yr old business policies until these old giesers die off.
They fired the dynamic ATT Executives as they were way too advanced.
I do have to laugh when I
I do have to laugh when I read what a cutting edge company ATT was before SBC bought them. They were also broke and had SBC waited for a couple of years more could have bought them on the courthouse steps.
To the "legacy T" folks I say welcome to a successful company. Your paychecks won't bounce here.
I've never had a paycheck
I've never had a paycheck bounce but you may laugh all you like. I'm rolling on the floor watching the geriatric good old boys stub their toes trying to make the transition from a regional company that nobody heard of outside of the southwest (or they would have kept their own "successful" name) stumble around as they try to make the transition to a global enterprise. Welcome to the rest of the world, and do try to keep up.
I have to agree
if cutting edge is equal to losing money, then yes AT&T was on the bleeding egdge and I do mean bleeding!
Legacy T is horrible!
Teleslackers
I suspect some of the corporate suits were sensing productivity was falling off, plus how could they justify their over-inflated salaries and perks if they weren't lording over their minions? Pooling the cube dwellers back in the corporate edifice has long-been a traditional model. It's a way to control minds, lives and minimize expenditures...all towards providing maximum shareholder value and executive compensation. Ah, yes. Smell the money...no where, of course, is there any mention of better serving their client base or providing better value....
You hit the point right on!
You hit the point right on!
"minimize expenditures"?
Only one flaw in your argument which I otherwise agree with. . . it's A LOT cheaper to have people working from home than it is to provide office space for them. Take a look at Avaya (Lucent/AT&T). They have a million sq ft of office space for rent becuase 62% of their people work from home now. They clearly 'get it.'
So much for reducing the carbon footprint
Apparently with the recent merger, execs are having anxiety about control and their upcoming March bonuses. Yeah, good idea to have all 300,000 employees driving to work! AT&T's own studies have proven that telecommuters are more productive. Now when employees get to work they find there's no coffee, no flatware, and no paper plates, so guess what they have to do, go and drive somewhere to get lunch. Wow, really great solution guys. Does anyone at AT&T understand the definition of productivity?
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