AT&T transformation strategy is amputation: cut employees, cut offices, cut costs. The company has shed 45% of its workforce in five years while trying to maintain the same infrastructure footprint. This is not transformation, it is managed decline.
350-to-9 office consolidation, top-down RTO mandate, geographic chokepoints.
Layoffs as primary mechanism, RTO backfired but pushed forward anyway.
Siloed divisions, 45% workforce cuts taking institutional knowledge.
Massive physical infrastructure, billions to reconfigure.
Layoffs dominant, RTO designed to trigger attrition.
Telecom infrastructure, constant 5G/fiber capex required.
141K employees across divisions, RTO signals digital systems insufficient.
"AT&T cut 115,000 employees in five years. That is not transformation, that is amputation."
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