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AT&T, a company that once was a poster child for telecommuting, is downsizing its long-running telework program and requiring thousands of employees who work from their homes and other virtual offices to return to traditional AT&T office environments, according to sources.
“It is a serious effort to reel in the telework people,” says Chuck Wilsker, president and CEO of the Telework Coalitions, an organization in Washington, D.C., that promotes telework through education and legislative efforts.
“We have been getting calls and e-mails from very unhappy AT&T teleworking employees who are being told that they will no longer be allowed to telework,” says Wilsker, who has heard that as many as 10,000 or 12,000 full-time teleworkers may be affected.
A spokesman in AT&T’s San Antonio, Texas, headquarters denies there are broad-scale plans to end teleworking arrangements, but acknowledges there may be some isolated cases. “Teleworking is at the discretion of the business,” says Walt Sharp, the spokesman.
He says AT&T is in the process of reconciling the human resources policies of the legacy AT&T, SBC Communications, which acquired AT&T in 2005; BellSouth, which was acquired in late 2006; and the former Cingular wireless operation, previously co-owned by BellSouth and AT&T.
“We have recently merged [these] very large companies, each of which has separate policies on everything, and we’re in the process of integrating all of those policies and coming up with integrated policies for AT&T overall,” Sharp says. “I believe the teleworking policy is expected to be integrated some time next year.”
One AT&T employee, who has teleworked for more than five years, told Network World he and his team members received notice in late September that they need to resume working in an AT&T physical office “as soon as possible.”
The news was not entirely unexpected, he says, since rumors have been circulating since AT&T’s merger with SBC that the new upper management was not supportive of virtual offices. “We’d heard rumors to that effect, and all of a sudden we got marching orders to go back to an office.”
I am much less productiveBy Anonymous on April 2, 2008, 4:38 pmI was working at home 2-3 days/week. Now I work at home 1 day per week for ATT. When I come into work I sit and stare at my computer with nothing to do. What takes...
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February updateBy Anonymous on February 11, 2008, 12:13 amApparently, those of us who were Legacy T will be grandfathered for at least a year, into 2009. Telecommuting will be eliminated by "attrition". I heard this...
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I have to agreeBy Anonymous on December 19, 2007, 7:24 pmif 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!
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Just as effective WAHBy Anonymous on December 19, 2007, 12:59 pmIn the office I have no face-to-face interaction. If I had more of it then I would want to be there more. But my communications are almost entirely via email and...
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