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The telecom giant tells 60,000 managers to return to a sharply reduced number of offices, requiring many to relocate or quit.

AT&T Inc., the biggest US phone company, has 350 offices spread across all 50 states, and many employees have worked from home since the pandemic started. So it came as a shock when Chief Executive Officer John Stankey in May mandated that 60,000 managers must report to work in person—but at offices in just nine locations…

Stankey estimated that among the managers affected, about 15%, or 9,000, will face the choice of moving or leaving the company. People inside AT&T say that with the proposed office reductions and task-specific realignments, the estimate is probably closer to 25,000, and most won’t be eligible for relocation money, according to several managers. ..

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Sounds like one of the typical asinine corporate CEO decisions.  When they land in the dung pile they’ll wonder what happened.

Even astrophysicist Carl Sagan when speaking astronomically used Billions, not Trillions.

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The headline of the article says exactly what I was thinking…that the CEO did it to avoid having to lay people off. Dirty rotten (scoundrel)!

The article’s actual headline reads:

Is AT&T’s RTO Mandate a Mass Layoff in Disguise?

Too bad the article’s hidden behind a “paywall”, so we can’t read any more of it than what Alex managed to post above. 

Paywall is in quotes above because you don’t really need to pay to read the article. But you DO need to create a free account in order to read it.

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Umm, Alex, do you have a NON-“paywalled” source that you can quote so that the rest of us can read your source for ourselves??

HINT: The Wall Street Journal is another publication that has a great many of its articles behind a paywall.

Paywall is in quotes in the first sentence above because one doesn’t need to pay to read the article, but one DOES need to create an account for free to read it.

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Bob99 wrote:

Umm, Alex, do you have a NON-“paywalled” source that you can quote so that the rest of us can read your source for ourselves??

There is no need for NON-“paywalled” soueces for any paywalled article.
Just install Chrome/Firefox ‘bypass-paywalls‘ extension.

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