News

Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Workers: Adapt, or Else

People who do not spend five to 10 hours a week in online learning, he added, "will obsolete themselves with the technology."

We’re at a crossroads as a business — and a country — where education has to keep up with technology."

AT&T’s competitors are not just Verizon and Sprint, but also tech giants like Amazon and Google. For the company to survive in this environment, Mr. Stephenson needs to retrain its 280,000 employees so they can improve their coding skills, or learn them, and make quick business decisions based on a fire hose of data coming into the company.

In an ambitious corporate education program that started about two years ago, he is offering to pay for classes (at least some of them) to help employees modernize their skills. But there’s a catch: They have to take these classes on their own time and sometimes pay for them with their own money.

To Mr. Stephenson, it should be an easy choice for most workers: Learn new skills or find your career choices are very limited.

By QUENTIN HARDY

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/technology/gearing-up-for-the-cloud-att-tells-its-workers-adapt-or-else.html?hpw&rref=technology&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

Sorry, we couldn't find any posts. Please try a different search.

Leave a Comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.