AT&T To Cut Back On Their Telework Program

AT&T is cutting back their employee telework program. They say it’s because the new managers from SBC Global are essentially clueless.

Sounds like more job security for Dilbert!

Here are some employee comments:

Meanwhile, employees are fired up at the thought they may be called back to office sites.

“I’ll continue to telework until I am fired. At that point, I am certain I can find a better-paying job with a better corporate culture. Way to go, AT&T — let’s force all of your talent out the door and replace it with contractors,” wrote one reader.

Another wrote: “This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard yet. It’s like walking onto a Ford lot, asking the salesman for advice, and finding out he drives a Honda! How can you buy a product from a company that doesn’t even use it themselves? (Now to find out if they ‘force’ me back to the office, if I can write off my gas as a tax expense after being virtual office all this time.)”

Nonemployees similarly questioned the logic of a company retreating from telework when the rest of the world seems to be doing the opposite.

“It’s ridiculous that AT&T is regressing back toward the Stone Age.