AT&T

Independence within work projects, flexible work schedule, real nice people, East side location (if that is convenient for your home location).

Not top-of-the-line salaries preclude us from getting (& retaining) the best talent. The merger with AT&T is showing early signs of benefit cuts already.

Cost cutting, yes; we all need to do our share. But some of those cuts affect morale and the workplace environment, which affects the level of service.

You get what you pay for. Don't lose good workers (they are hard to find) with short-sighted thinking. Not paying for good/scarce skills will not provide long-term results for the company.

It will end up reflecting in the share price, which we all know does have an effect on execs (& all workers') bonuses in the end.

Awaiting to see what the mothership AT&T decides to do with the Mobility benefits and will seriously consider options if they degrade the benefits any more within Mobility.

Bennies were pretty decent when Cingular, but we'll see what the merger does to them.

Salaries are not being adjusted (yet) for the cost of living within the critical skills arena. Benefits are pretty much what's left to keep critical skilled associates.

But I can say that the company hires real nice people, and that means a lot when most of one's waking hours are spent at work.