Pros
you do still get paid
Cons
Oh my, where can I start. RTO has become the literal iceberg to the Titanic. It first started by closing the Redmond Town Center offices and moving everyone to Bothell. Hey AT&T Leadership, every other tech company (TMo,Meta,Google,Apple,SpaceX,MSFT,Amazon) is in Bellevue/Kirkland/Redmond, where do you think your talent is going? Just in time for the new light rail to open with a station in RTC. Folks forced to move to hub location, even though their work is entirely siloed and they don’t collaborate with anyone. Fired if you don’t move. Morale is insanely low, the only collaboration that goes on is people complaining about crazy new mandates for being in office. Teams calls with people from the same team, sitting just desks apart, you can hear the person speaking through the other persons mic, frequently folks taking calls from common areas/lunch rooms because they can’t find a desk…..they could literally be anywhere in the world with internet and be more productive. Not enough desks, not enough parking spots, not enough toilets, not enough coffee cups. Rumors off the charts, literal report cards on the number of hours you are in the office, geo fence on your work issued cell phone. Total inability to have any work life balance. Have a doctors appointment in Bellevue because you live there and worked there for years, better take 4 hours of PTO to make up for the time out of office. Apparently FLSA does not apply as except employees are being treated like hourly. The only thing of importance is that your laptop and cell phone are in the office, never mind the multi million dollar project you are responsible for. The only logical reason for this is a soft layoff and that’s just a terrible way to treat your entire workforce to save paying severance.
