Re:Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.
by matchagaucho on Thursday March 03, 2016 @09:47PM
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That's a great top-down message from the AT&T CEO.
But the bottom-up reality is that people coming into work at AT&T pushing open source, cloud, or data science agendas are perceived as threats, and are managed out.
Re:Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S.
by pm90 on Thursday March 03, 2016 @09:20PM
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It is a really nice thing that they are taking the right steps, but personally, I am very very pessimistic. Just encouraging people to take classes is one thing, but them actually applying those skills to solve the problems that at&t faces...that is a different question.
I really really do hope that it works out though; my rational mind believes it otherwise.
> To Mr. Stephenson, it should be an easy choice for most workers: Learn new skills or find your career choices are very limited.
“There is a need to retool yourself, and you should not expect to stop,” he said in a recent interview at AT&T’s Dallas headquarters. People who do not spend five to 10 hours a week in online learning, he added, “will obsolete themselves with the technology.”...
By 2020, Mr. Stephenson hopes AT&T will be well into its transformation into a computing company that manages all sorts of digital things: phones, satellite television and huge volumes of data, all sorted through software managed in the cloud.
That can’t happen unless at least some of his work force is retrained to deal with the technology. It’s not a young group:
The average tenure at AT&T is 12 years, or 22 years if you don’t count the people working in call centers. And many employees don’t have experience writing open-source software or casually analyzing terabytes of customer data."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/technology/gearing-up-for-...